The same hacker also said it was behind last week’s high-profile hack of the Uber app, which provided an update on its own investigations.
“There are also reports over the weekend that this same actor breached video game production company Rockstar Games,” Uber wrote in a recently updated blog. “We are in close coordination with the FBI and the US Department of Justice on this matter and will continue to support their efforts.”
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Uber said it believed the person responsible was “affiliated with a hacking group called Lapsus$, which has been increasingly active over the past year” and which has similarly hacked a list of other tech companies this year, including Microsoft, Samsung and The company. Nvidia.
Yesterday, Rockstar issued its own statement about the hack and admitted that it had suffered a “network intrusion” that had led to its servers receiving the leaked information.
The GTA maker said it was “extremely disappointed” but that there would be no “long-term impact” on development. Live services such as Grand Theft Auto Online were not interrupted.
In March this year, BBC News reported on a 16-year-old from Oxford, known online as “White” or “Breachbase”, who was accused of being one of the leaders of the Lapsus$ group.
“White”‘s true identity was publicly identified by other hackers and he was one of seven arrested by the City of London police – before all were eventually released under investigation.
“I had never heard of anything like this until recently,” the 16-year-old’s father said at the time. “He has never talked about any hacking, but he is very good with computers and spends a lot of time on the computer. I always thought he was playing games.
“We’ll try to stop him from going to the computers.”
