A couple of weeks ago, someone leaked the trailer for the long-awaited Rockstar Games’ sixth edition of its Grand Theft Auto video game series on TikTok. It was later leaked again on Twitter (“X”). It’s believed that the trailer was leaked by the son of one of the game’s developers. The next day, Rockstar appeared to throw in the towel and just released it themselves on their YouTube channel. It rang up more than 90 million views in 24 hours and is now well over 150 million.
But that wasn’t the first hack or leak in the years-long development cycle of GTA 6. Last year, someone hacked into Rockstar’s Slack channel and downloaded more than an hour’s worth of video that was later leaked online. The culprit turned out to be an 18-year-old hacker named Arion Kurtaj, a member of a hacking group named Lapsus$. He was taken to trial, so you may be wondering what sort of…
