Turning Point In The Case Of Data Breach Attack on Uber: Teen In Claws Of Laws Arrested By Uk Police For Breach On Rockstar Games

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Turning Point In The Case Of Data Breach Attack
on Uber Teen In Claws Of Laws Arrested By Uk
Police For Breach On Rockstar Games Hello,
friends welcome to the world of the hacker newz
in todays article we are going to have an
ongoing discussion on the event of a data breach
that took place on the slack server of Uber, and
now a turning point has come up in the attack
history of Uber The announcement was made by the
City of London police on Twitter confirming the
arrest of a British 17-year-old teen who was
found suspected of having his involvement in the
recent cyber-attack that took place recently.
In a short tweet which was shared by law
enforcement, that the arrest of the teen took
place in Oxfordshire thus it being a part of a
hacking investigation thus having the support in
the investigation provided by the UK's National
Crime Agency.
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It is being confirmed by the City of London
Police that he is going to remain in police
custody on having made the referral by NCA to the
City of London, it is being stated that it is
part of their investigation progress, while the
latter said that they have none of the further
information for any kind of new information that
would be going to be posted on Twitter. Upon
making a reach out to the FBI regarding the
possibility of the involvement of the suspect
in the Uber attack no immediate response has
been received from the FBI. As there are not
descriptive details thus being received in hand
about the investigation hence it is supposed
hereby that the arrest is having the tie -up
with the Lapsus hacking group which is found
being suspected to be behind the occurrence of
the cyber-attacks which have occurred recently on
Uber, Rockstar Games, and 2K. LAPSUS HACKING
GROUP BEHIND THE DATA BEACH ON UBER AND ALL HIGH
PROFILE FIRMS During the attack which was made in
the last year, it was said that the Lapsus
hacking group was being led by a threat actor
having the name 'White' or 'Breach Base,' who
was being doxed out allegedly was as a teen who
was having the age of 16 years from the UK. This
hacking group is found to have been found
responsible for the high-profile attacks which
have taken place along with Microsoft, CISCO,
NVIDIA, SAMSUNG, AND OKTA being included in
April, the arrest was made by the City of London
who was having the age from 16 to 21, along with
the 17-year-old ring leader being included.
However, the release was given to the boys by
the UK as they were in the age of minority soon
on bail.
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DISCLOSURE OF RESPONSE MADE BY THE UBER TO THE
CYBER ATTACK DATA BREACH MADE ON THE SLACK SERVER
BY TEA POTS On 15th September 2022 i.e., the
Thursday of the week before the disclosure was
made by Uber the response was being made to a
cyberattack after them coming to know that a
hacker who is known as 'Tea Pots,' was able to
gain access to their Slack server and thus made
to begin the posting of screenshots of their
access to other internal services. On Sunday
Three days later, on Sunday, a threat actor was
making himself being called out as the teapot
uber hacker' thus made to start the leakage of
the Grand Theft Auto 6 video footage which was
not seen along with the snippets of source code
for GTA V and GTA VI onGTAforums.com. This claim
was made by the threat actor claimed that the
breach was made on the Slack and confluence
server of the Rockstar Game's Slack along with
the Confluence servers for stealing of the data
making the data breach successful and it was
also said by them they were behind by whom the
attack was made by them recently on Uber. The
owner of the Breached hacking forum whose
official name is pompompurin, was the one who
made to claim that the White was the who was in
the back picture behind the attacks made on
Rockstar Games and Uber. ATTRIBUTION OF THE
ATTACK TO THE LAPSUS HACKING GROUP MAKING USE OF
MFA FATIGUE ATTACKS FOR MAKING DATA BREACH Soon
after, the attribution of the attack was made to
the Lapsus hacking group by Uber who made to
take out the usage of the MFA Fatigue attacks
along with other tactics which are known to be
the association with this hacking group.
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More recently, the security breach was suffered
by a gaming company 2K also in which the threat
actor made it to be done with the help of desktop
for sending the malware to customers. While
there is none of the formal attributions given
to Lapsus, the owner of 2K Take-Two Interactive,
which is the parent company of Rockstar
Games. Due to the recent attacks, made the
attribution made based on the age and location
of the individual whose arrest is made is having
the involvement of many in the cybersecurity
community it is believed that the arrest is
having linkage to the Lapsus group. It is said
by the Journalist Matthew Keys that it was a
17-year-old boy whose arrest was made over the
hack of Rockstar, and likely Uber. However, as
the suspect is a minor, they can't make the
release of their name under UK law
enforcement. This is an ongoing story which is
still having more secrets still to be revealed
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