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Unless I’m missing something this seems like a huge fucking overreaction and maybe get this guy some behavioral therapy or whatever. He’s incredibly talented and it would be a damn shame to waste that in a hospital. I’m guessing he’ll get a chance to be released, but some rehabilitation would go a long way and I don’t think his life should waste away in a hospital prison
He committed the ultimate crime, though: stealing from rich people. And he even had the effrontery not to be rich himself while doing it.
That's what they're punishing here.
The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
A mental health assessment used as part of the sentencing hearing said he "continued to express the intent to return to cyber-crime as soon as possible. He is highly motivated."
I'm assuming that's why. Hopefully they can put his mind to good use because he seems to be talented and is clearly motivated.
Oh no. He's a hardened cyber criminal. We'd better zombify him in a mental hospital for the rest of his life! The world just isn't safe otherwise!
But rehabilitation costs money, money that could go to private prisons instead
Rockstar should absolutely just hire this kid as a whitehat instead.
Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone.
This sounds all impressive, and MacGyver level. But I need more info. Did he just cast his phone screen to the TV so he could see better while he used ssh or ftp in to a poorly secured port at Rockstar or did he do some crazy shit.
Yeah, a phone is literally a portable computer. It's like saying he made a bomb using nothing but a hairclip, a rubber band, and a grenade.
To most people though it's still the equivalent because they don't know any better.
Yeah, that is about what happened. According to the BBC, he had purchased a keyboard, mouse and Fire TV stick to "connect to cloud services":
In a "flagrant disregard for his bail conditions", jurors were told that police found an Amazon Fire Stick in his hotel TV allowing him to connect to cloud computing services with a newly purchased smart phone, keyboard and mouse.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66549159
Naturally, almost all "news" sources cook up a headline like "hack carried out with only an Amazon Fire Stick". Ugh.
Right, lol, so the fellow could have just connected to a free cloud VM running Kali and run some scripts, or more likely got access to Rockstar cloud services by social engineering a password out of someone. Riveting stuff, hah
That is fucking wild
That's the strangest photo for such an article
That's him carrying out a phishing attack.
It's either AI or someone who stopped caring about their job. :)
The gang's attacks on tech giants (...)he remained a high risk to the public.
So tech giants are part of the public ?!
Corporations are people, too! Just ask them…
Next week : Hospital computers have been hacked from inside !
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
Despite having his laptop confiscated, Kurtaj managed to breach Rockstar, the company behind GTA, using an Amazon Firestick, his hotel TV and a mobile phone.
He broke into the company's internal Slack messaging system to declare "if Rockstar does not contact me on Telegram within 24 hours I will start releasing the source code".
He worked with Kurtaj and other members of Lapsus$ to hack tech giant Nvidia and phone company BT/EE and steal data before demanding a four million dollar ransom, which was not paid.
The gang - thought to mostly be teenagers - used con-man like tricks as well as computer hacking to gain access to multinational corporations such as Microsoft, the technology giant and digital banking group Revolut.
During their spree, the hackers regularly celebrated their crimes publicly and taunted victims on the social network app Telegram in English and Portuguese.
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Wtf is "acute autism"? I don't think it works like that lol.
Fuck, if only there was some kind of hackers organization a la watch dog that would free him and let him go on a rampage mode on these assholes.
Hackers 2: electric hackaloo
Was this from the 2023 leak? Or the glorious 1 hour of video leak?
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I guess the article title has been changed, now it says "indefinite hospital order" which, as far as I understand, means reevaluation every 6 months until he's deemed "safe" to society.