Seven persons have been arrested in the United Kingdom connected to Lapsus$ hacks

Seven individuals have been detained in London by police, who believe they have ties to the hacker organization Lapsus$, which recently carried out attacks on NVIDIA, Samsung, Okta, Electronic Arts and Microsoft. 

On Thursday, BBC News reported that "Seven people between the ages of 16 and 21 have been arrested in connection with an investigation into a hacking group," the police told the medium. The suspects have since been released pending investigation. "That investigation is still ongoing," the police told BBC News.

The arrests came only hours after a Bloomberg story indicated that a teenager from Oxford, U.K., is accused of being the brains behind the now-famous Lapsus$ hacking organization. Four researchers looking into the gang's latest breaches said they felt the 16-year-old, who goes by the online aliases "White" or "Breachbase," was a key role in Lapsus$, and Bloomberg was able to track him out after his personal information was exposed online by rival hackers.

The hacking group recently carried out cyberattacks on big IT businesses. NVIDIA and Microsoft have been the most recent victims, with software from search engine Bing and voice assistant Cortana seized. Last week, it was also reported that the organization had carried out an attack on Okta, a business that supplies authentication software to Apple and Amazon. Earlier on Thursday, it was discovered that the hacker group's mastermind might be a teenager from England. According to BBC News, authorities have not stated if the adolescent was one of the seven people detained.

According to BBC News, the teen's father has been contacted. The father was oblivious of his son's potential conduct. "I had never heard of this until lately. He's never mentioned hacking, but he's extremely skilled with computers and spends a lot of time on them.