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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.
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#6005208 Posted on: 03/28/2022 12:39 PM
Not likely, we don't live in a Mission Impossible world. They will be jailed if convicted and found guilty. If they're a minor, the prison term will be less if compared to being tried as an adult. But I do agree it's a waste of talent that can be used for the greater good.
Probation, passports withheld, limited movement in country, scholarships to tech schools, future MI6 intelligence officers.
Not likely, we don't live in a Mission Impossible world. They will be jailed if convicted and found guilty. If they're a minor, the prison term will be less if compared to being tried as an adult. But I do agree it's a waste of talent that can be used for the greater good.
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#6005230 Posted on: 03/28/2022 02:27 PM
Yes, lets punish the victims! That sounds like the greatest of ideas!
While i understand that companies that hold information are generally expected to protect that information, there is literally no such thing as "fully protected", even offline information can be stolen. So your idea that every time a company is the victim of illegal activities, we should fine them, just doesn't make sense.
I'd love to see you be the victim of literally anything and be told you should be charged and prosecuted for what someone else did to you.
And just so it's clear: That doesn't mean an investigation shouldn't be done to determine if the hack was able to be done due to negligence, but the immediate: prosecute the victim! ---- just doesn't make sense.
The "victims" are the nvidia customers/driver users whose information has been stolen. Nvidia is not a victim, they had a responsibility and failed. Now they have to prove they did everything in their power to prevent this from happening, which I think is reasonable to doubt given the fact a bunch of kids were able to hack one of the biggest tech companies in the freaking world.
I'd love to see you have your savings stolen from your bank by 5 kids... would u not demand explanations from the bank? would you not push charges and investigate the hell out of them? I didn't say "condemn" nor "imprison", prosecution means having a state lawyer investigate the case afaik (could be wrong, not a native speaker).
Yes, lets punish the victims! That sounds like the greatest of ideas!
While i understand that companies that hold information are generally expected to protect that information, there is literally no such thing as "fully protected", even offline information can be stolen. So your idea that every time a company is the victim of illegal activities, we should fine them, just doesn't make sense.
I'd love to see you be the victim of literally anything and be told you should be charged and prosecuted for what someone else did to you.
And just so it's clear: That doesn't mean an investigation shouldn't be done to determine if the hack was able to be done due to negligence, but the immediate: prosecute the victim! ---- just doesn't make sense.
The "victims" are the nvidia customers/driver users whose information has been stolen. Nvidia is not a victim, they had a responsibility and failed. Now they have to prove they did everything in their power to prevent this from happening, which I think is reasonable to doubt given the fact a bunch of kids were able to hack one of the biggest tech companies in the freaking world.
I'd love to see you have your savings stolen from your bank by 5 kids... would u not demand explanations from the bank? would you not push charges and investigate the hell out of them? I didn't say "condemn" nor "imprison", prosecution means having a state lawyer investigate the case afaik (could be wrong, not a native speaker).
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#6005311 Posted on: 03/28/2022 07:10 PM
I can see that talking to you is worthless.
I guess in the end if your information was compromised, you are at fault, and you should be prosecuted, because in the end you were the one foolish enough to let someone else have your information.
I have no desire to converse with people with such twisted minds as yours, blocked.
Nvidia is not a victim, they had a responsibility and failed.
I can see that talking to you is worthless.
I guess in the end if your information was compromised, you are at fault, and you should be prosecuted, because in the end you were the one foolish enough to let someone else have your information.
I have no desire to converse with people with such twisted minds as yours, blocked.
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