The City of London Police have arrested seven teenagers for their suspected links with a hacking group believed to be the recently prolific Lapsus$ group. BBC News Reports.
Detective Inspector Michael O’Sullivan of the City of London Police said in a statement to the edge. Seven people between the ages of 16 and 21 have been arrested in connection with this investigation and all have been released under investigation. Our investigations are still ongoing.”
Lapsus$ holds responsibility for some major security breaches at tech companies, including nvidiaAnd the SamsungAnd the UbisoftAnd the octaAnd the Microsoft. Wednesday, Reports appeared He points out that the Oxford-based teenager is the group’s mastermind. The City of London Police did not say whether this young man was among those arrested.
It appears that at least one member of $Lapsus is also involved in a data breach at EA, Cyber security expert Brian Krebs reports On Wednesday in an extended article about the group. vice She confirmed the group’s involvement in this breach in her own article Thursdaystating that it was “a symbol of the subsequent and massive hacks of $Lapsus.”
The identity of the apparently suspected mastermind has been revealed by angry agents who deceived him. According to the Krebs report, the group’s leader bought Doxbin, a site where people can share or find personal information about others, last year, but was a poor owner of the site. It appears that he relinquished control in January but leaked “the entire Doxbin dataset” to Telegram, and the Doxbin community retaliated by defaming him.
BBC News She says she spoke to the teen’s father, who was apparently unaware of his involvement with the group. “I haven’t heard of any of this until recently. The father said, according to BBC News. “I always thought he was playing. We will try to stop him from using computers.”
Update March 24th, 12:05PM ET: Added City of London Police statement and additional context about the group.
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