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.

  • Guntrigger@feddit.ch
    641·
    11 months ago

    The part I don’t get that no-one has mentioned is that Rockstar stated in court that it cost them $5million to recover from the attack. What does that even mean? They spent $5mil on lawyers to recover the video footage? They spent that on upgrading security (which arguably should have been in place already if they could be hacked with a fire stick and a landline). Or have they been selling $5mil less of Shark Cards than they were expecting?

    • FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      11 months ago

      I think some of these evil corporations just throw up a number and expect people to believe they spent that kind of money.

      I don’t even buy games at release anymore. I wait for a sale or GOTY edition. I wish people would stop pre-ordering and wait for YouTube reviews and Twitch streams.

      I didn’t pre-order GTA V and watched it on Twitch. After about 2 weeks, went and bought it on PS3 with money I won from a football pool.

      • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        11 months ago

        I’ve been around for this kind of thing. Similar to grants. When the money is flowing, management just goes around and earmarks various things on the budget sheets and asks the data folks for reports to back it up. Some of it could be true. Most of it is a stretch.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        I usually buy a game on release if it’s good or if I trust the company – when I heard Armored Core 6 came out, I made a note to go buy it because FromSoft is amazing. And once again, they didn’t miss.

        That said, if they put out a game with a bunch of microtransactions, I’d probably think twice. Respect for a developer takes time to build but is easily broken.