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Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison::Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.

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[–] scrion@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

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