POV: You're the 17-Year-Old Who Hacked GTA 6

He was 17, on police bail, banned from the internet, and hiding from hackers in a Travelodge. So he plugged a £30 Fire Stick into the hotel TV and broke into Rockstar Games. In September 2022, Arion Kurtaj — the teenage mastermind of the Lapsus$ hacking group — leaked 90 development videos of Grand Theft Auto 6 to the internet. He did it from a budget hotel room in Bicester, England, while under police witness protection, using a smartphone, a keyboard, a mouse, and an Amazon Fire TV Stick. Three days earlier, he had broken into Uber through an MFA fatigue attack. This is the story of how one autistic Oxford teenager hacked Microsoft, Samsung, Nvidia, BT, Uber, and Rockstar Games — and how the biggest gaming leak in history was carried out on a device that cost less than a pizza. 0:00 The Fire Stick 0:43 Who Is Arion Kurtaj 1:40 First Arrest 2:48 Banned Online 3:56 Witness Protection 5:03 Breaking Uber 6:18 Stealing GTA 6 7:34 Hospital Order Arion Kurtaj caused nearly $10 million in damages across Uber, Nvidia, Samsung, Microsoft, BT, Rockstar Games and more. In December 2023 a UK judge handed him an indefinite hospital order at Southwark Crown Court. He remains in a secure facility until doctors decide he's no longer a danger to the public. The Amazon Fire Stick he used to leak GTA 6 is still in police evidence. Grand Theft Auto VI is now scheduled for release on November 19, 2026. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2... • CBS News — https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-th... • Kotaku — https://kotaku.com/gta-6-rockstar-lea... • TIME — https://time.com/6308370/british-teen... #GTA6 #ArionKurtaj #GTA6Leak #GTA6Hack #Lapsus #TrueCrime #CyberCrime #RockstarGames #Hacker #TeenHacker #GTAVI #DigitalCrimeScene #GrandTheftAuto6 #TrueStory #Hacking #rockstar