The hack cost Rockstar Games $5 million.

The 18-year-old Lapsus$ hacker who played a critical role in leaking Grand Theft Auto VI footage has been sentenced to life inside a hospital prison, according to a report from the BBC. A British judge ruled on Thursday that Arion Kurtaj is a high risk to the public because he still wants to commit cybercrimes.

In August, a London jury found that Kurtaj carried out cyberattacks against GTA VI developer Rockstar Games and other companies, including Uber and Nvidia. However, since Kurtaj has autism and was deemed unfit to stand trial, the jury was asked to determine whether he committed the acts in question, not whether he did so with criminal intent.

  • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
    45·
    11 months ago

    It’s only life if he does not change his ways. If they can help him to learn to cope, and not to want to continue to commit violence and crimes, then he will be set free.

    Otherwise, you’re just running loose a violent person who has said that they will continue to do their crime

    But I’m curious, what would your ideal solution be?

    • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
      35·
      11 months ago

      Ideal solution under this system? I have no faith in or respect for this system. This is what they do.

      If humanity got its head out of its ass, stopped playing the “GIMME IT ITS MINE” game against itself, human information belonged to humanity, and the only secrets that need be kept are for truly dangerous technologies held solely by a government accountable to its people, he wouldn’t need to be in jail.

      But this kid is threatening the intellectual PRIVATE PROPERTY of our owners. And in our dystopic civilization as we’ve made it, that means he has to go away.