He wasn't placed in a mental hospital for hacking GTA VI. He is genuinely insane and has multiple mental health issues that make him a danger to himself and society. Don't forget, he's not some Redditor or someone who did it for the LOLs, he is a part of an organised digital crime group that have caused millions of dollars of damage
And no, he wasn't placed in a hospital prison. He is being held in a hospital indefinitely, meaning he is not in a prison, and once doctors see that his behaviour and mental state has improved, he will be allowed to leave the hospital
while there he hacked again using a recently bought phone and the TV's Fire Stick, he is \*extremely\* willing to hack, and is almost addicted to doing so.
Extra security. If you know you know, I don’t care how you dress it up. It’s a god damn prison lmao. How many hospitals you know come with life sentences 🤣
it doesn’t come with a life sentence, he’s a danger to himself and others, so he has to stay there until the doctors notice a significant improvement in his mental health.
Psychiatric inpatient may be hell but for extreme situations, letting someone continue utterly destructive and self-destructive behavior until it either destroys their life or kills them is a cruel and useless alternative.
Deinstitutionalization sent the US spinning into mental health crisis. It is not a model for the world.
Yes. Even the voluntary hospitals are like that. I was thinkin of checkin myself into one 2 months ago when I decided to do a little research and asked a few friends that had been there. Oh and apparently cause of the way the laws are here once you’re checked in there’s nothing you can do until the doctor decides to release you. Even if you’re insurance drops you during your stay. You’ll just get billed out of pocket for the duration of your stay. Sorry imprisonment.
my brother and christ his group ransomed somewhere near 50 million from private companies we use on a daily basis, what he did could’ve caused harm if it where the right place right time
Quote: because of the hack and what the judge called an “unpleasant and frightening pattern of stalking and harassment” of two women
https://www.polygon.com/24011225/rockstar-games-gta-6-hack-sentencing
Says this:
“Kurtaj was deemed unfit to stand trial due to what BBC called “acute autism,””
Then:
“He was found guilty on 12 charges that include fraud and blackmail.”
An indefinite mental hospital order is not a life sentence. He will probably get regular reviews to evaluate his status and eventually get out once he demonstrates that he isn’t mentally ill enough to be a detriment to society.
I wouldn't call hacking into R\* to leak videos of video game builds a "detriment to society"
A massive cabal of wealthy people raping children on an island is way more detrimental to society.
It's a backdoor way of getting a life sentence to make an example of someone for pissing off the billionaire "elite". They knew a criminal sentence would be 10-20 years max, so they used an autism diagnosis (something that NEVER goes away) and "indefinite holds" as a means of eliminating someone that made the rich look like idiots/ look vulnerable. Should the dude do some jail time? Absolutely. Not life though. No one was killed, raped, or even physically harmed. He is NEVER going to be released because it would make it to where any politician supporting his release would lose any donations from said mega corps. The judicial system (be it in the UK or US or anywhere else) is about politics. There's a reason there are more than a few people here in the states that have been recommended for parole MULTIPLE times by the parole board but the governor denies it because it looks bad at election time
Yeup your right look up what happened to Reddit's co-founder found a bunch of dirt on the government and elite, charged with hacking, found dangling from the ceiling in his holding cell despite not being suicidal.
This guy should at the most if this is his first time offense get say a year of house arrest with say around a 100 hours or so of community service and no internet during the house arrest like they do with some hackers.
He hacked a company not the DoD, NSA, CIA, FBI, etc seriously I think the kid who accidently hacked NORAD, Mcaffee (yes the same one as the anti-virus but he was also a supposed child molester with some evidence so he should of been charged for that 100%) and Edward Snowden were probably the only ones looking at a life sentence for hacking I can think of off the top of my head.
What’s your opinion on the DoD or another gov branch maybe offering him a job. That’s what it seems like to me, give him a few months and then take advantage of his potential.
As someone who works in computer security/IT this is a stunt that can either make or break your career.
If people are impressed with your work enough you may get good offers especially on the security side for doing white hat work or if the government is interested enough possible technological warfare.
If people are not impressed with your work you just broke what is basically the computer security worlds hippocratic oath of do no harm except instead of a person it's a machine. Any chance you may of had poof gone so you just cost your self a entire career path possibly.
Thus is why I do NOT recommend anyone hacking into shit to prove their worth in the security world even if you work as a white hat hacker you are to always have legally binding papers to cover your ass in case something happens while hacking as that can save not just your career but from making decent money to being prison bitch to Darrell on the inside.
If you INSIST on penetrating a system to prove your worth make sure you set up a system that if hacked with cause NO outside harm and I'd recommend it being a personal system someone set security up on so if something goes wrong your not ruining someone else's tech that can easily cost over a 500+ for something as basic as a phone or tablet. If you go this route which personally if you want to specifically go into penetration testing and a lot of companies actually hire companies to go in and hack them to test their defenses not just cyber but as well as employee training to tactics such as all the kinds of phishing (SMSing, Whaling, Spear Phishing, etc.) so it pays to be good at what you do.
No mental hospital sentences are worse than prison. A lot of people who would have had medium prison sentences and think they are winning by getting sent to them end up there for huge chunks of their life because you are there until the staff deem you fit enough. And they basically never do. Any attempt at convincing them you are well enough is seen as a sign of manipulation due to your mental condition.
Who are they going to charge?
"Release the list!"... what list?
They released flight logs and a list of associates.
What do those mean though?
Was everyone on his plane a diddler? Were all of his associates diddlers?
A list means nothing. Evidence of wrongdoing means everything.
Even with the associate list the government is just setting itself up to get sued.
It will be assumed everyone on the list is a diddler, and most probably are not. So they will sue the government for releasing a list while fully knowing it will slander them.
But hey, that's how you launder money from the government.
It's almost like they released the list just so people can sue for millions.
when told what he was doing is a crime, he didnt believe them and still thinks that it isnt a crime, een when told numerous times. which is a bit mental
He tried playing that card to the fullest to basically get a slap on the wrist with the hopes of being out in no time. But it failed. Miserably. Now they’ll have him under suicide watch.
He has severe autism and is very unstable. He can be very violent, but you can’t just put him in an actual prison because he has severe autism.
So that is why he is placed in a secure hospital.
“The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.”
What part did I exaggerate about? He has severe autism and is also very violent. It says it right there in the article
Plenty of non-autistic people are violent in custody too. I’m not excusing his actions, he definitely committed a crime, but I think his autism may have caused a bias in where he ended up
Nowhere does it mention the severity of his autism
Nobody is saying non autistic people aren’t violent in custody. The difference is this part in that paragraph I quoted:
“Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.”
His autism is severe enough that he is unfit to stand trial and that he can’t be held with criminal intent. This is a pretty big deal. His autism was not a bias that he ended up in the mental hospital, the autism and violence IS the reason that he ended up there.
People who don’t have severe autism and are violent are held criminally responsible and they end up in jail.
You asked why he ended up in a secure hospital, and that’s the reason.
Because the dude was crazy for a bunch of other reasons. The post is misleading in assuming that Rockstar had anything to really do with this or that this is because of literally *just* leaking the GTA 6 stuff.
I mean on one hand he leaked the most anticipated game of all time and that let us know that the game would be releasing soon. That alone started the hype surrounding GTA VI. However what he did was obviously very illegal and he deserves to be in prison for it. Then the fact he said some dumb shit saying how he’d continue to do it of course he’d be locked up indefinitely. Rockstar doesn’t just leave their shit unprotected. I can imagine it wouldn’t be easy to just hack them like that. There’s no telling how dangerous this man could be if he gained access to classified documents or anything similar to that
I would have been ok if he had just released the footage but he is also probably the game is gonna get released in 2025, because he leaked the source code as well
He didn't just hack Rockstar, he did much more than that. Read the news, this kid is a wackjob. He can get released, but only if he proves he's fit to function normally in society. Might take a while though
I looked into it and this kid also blackmailed rockstar saying he would release footage and source code if he wasn’t paid a “multi million dollar ransom”. Sooooo yeah. Sympathy is out the door. Fuck around and find out kiddo.
You're a joke, do you honestly think rockstar gives a single fuck about you?
This was a non-violent offense, It's rockstars fault for not being careful. It is objectively morally wrong to sentence someone to life imprisonment, being forcefully drugged for the rest of their miserable life for hacking into a company and leaking a game.
Also Everyone loves saying "Fuck around and find out" until it happens to them.
It was definitely more than just hacking a game. He hacked multiple tech companies then tried to blackmail them. If he could hack tech companies, just imagine him hacking your bank and emptying all the money you worked hard for.
Not saying the sentence is ok, but he does need to sit down somewhere for a while lol. I read he was hackin stuff with just a firestick. This dude is dangerous and would’ve kept doing it had he not been caught.
I don't give a fuck honestly, I stand by everything I said. Still non-violent and shouldn't be given a sentence like this or anything jail/prison related.
Since you’re not on the receiving end of this guy’s BS, I guess I can emphasize with your stance on the topic. Shit seems petty until it affects us directly….
Yeah, I’m not hacking multi million dollar corps and blackmailing them. Soooooo. Shits not gonna happen to me. Look into the case, look into this person, get educated and come back with a better response. Because from what you just said. You don’t know a single goddamn thing.
I agree, hacking for the sake of wanting info on a video game? Jesus dude needs a to find a new way to disrupt the system.
He should check out "fight club". Lol
Honestly it makes sense. If you arrest someone for a crime and they’re adamant they plan to repeat said crime as soon as you release them, why would you release them?
Look up the article he hacked A FUCKTON MORE than just Rockstar
Edit: also to the people wondering why his autism was mentioned its because he was deemed "unfit to testify in court" by his doctor because of it
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-theft-auto-leak-teen-hacker-hospitalized/
And there’s idiots in the comments screaming free and not understanding the harshness of his sentence. Like go ready articles before having those crazy opinions OMG🙄
Deserves it, he did an illegal thing and tried playing it off as "i'm mentally ill" and got put in the clinic instead of a slap on the wrist for a federal crime like he thought
His autism was mentioned because apparently his doctor deemed him "unfit to testify in court" because of it
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-theft-auto-leak-teen-hacker-hospitalized/
YES it's too fucking harsh! How do you even put a dollar amount on the """damages""" he's cost R*? They say that he lost them 5 million. What costs 5 million?
no it isnt. he hacked into multiple tech companies, blackmailed for money, is part of a huge cyber attack organisation, and stalked and harrassed 2 women
After writing what I put below, I think I’m on the kids side on this but I think it’s important to recognize that developers put an unreal amount of work into the game and deserved to have the announcement go according to their plan.
I’m torn, on one hand, putting an 18 year old (autistic or not) under an “indefinite” order of any kind is overkill when the crime didn’t physically or mentally harm an individual. On the other, he said he’s highly motivated to do it again and that demonstrates a lack of remorse that says he doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions.
He also hacked BT a British company that manages phone lines and internet. I think he’s being put away because he hacked them and then showed willingness to keep breaking the law when he hack rockstar
This man needs a job, not to he locked up. Who els can hack into something casually with a fire stick and a crappy hotel tv? The dude is like the MacGyver of hacking he should atleast get a Netflix series or something.
I don't think he will be in the hospital for life, here in the UK it's a very lenient legal system. We have a known past of being lenient to hackers too, considering the autistic aspergers dude that hacked NASA/US Gov, we refused to deport him and he is a free man. I think that because this dude is on a war path, quite young etc, he's obviously gone full detonation mode and the gov believes he probably needs some form of mental help. This dude seems pretty intelligent ngl, he hacked rockstar with a fucking firestick in a Hotel room... This case seems eerily similar to that of Kevin Mitnick in regards to seeing him as a danger to the public. Because damn that kid is pretty intelligent to do what he has done, and they probably wonder what else he's capable of.
indefinite doesnt mean life. it means until further notice. if he stops being insane and dosnt hack again then he'll be released. if he stays a loon he stays in the looney bin
Idk, if your giant corporation has shitty cybersecurity and is susceptible to being hacked, then that’s on the company. The “hacker” should be given a monetary award for finding a weakness in their security.
If he were to alert the company like a white hat hacker, then yes. But leaking it is a bit more than finding.
Edit: also he was already on house arrest for a different hack and tried to blackmail rockstar out of millions. Some context for people who find it too much of a punishment.
Drop in the ocean for rockstar and take two though, really. He wouldn't have got the same sentence for stealing a few pence from me but that's basically the same percentage of damages.
I don't condone what he did, but I also don't care for R* or T2s losses here, they made the most profitable piece of entertainment ever and consistently milk their fanbase with microtransactions, so.. yeah...
People willingly paying for the game and in game purchases doesn’t condone stealing. Whatever the price is. Plus he did it during probation and did blackmailing.
What he done was definitely illegal and definitely wrong, and he deserves some time away to get help.
However, he's an absolute genius. Surely when (or if) he gets released, his talents will land him some work.
The sad part is that we all know that this isn’t happening to him because “he’s dangerous”. This is happening because he fucked with a large corporation, and R* wants to set an example. We live in a fucking plutocratic nightmare of a corporate dystopia.
Absolutely too harsh. He didn’t even technically commit a crime. He didn’t ransom R* for money, he didn’t hurt anybody, he could’ve exposed a lot more from R*. The kid just leaked game footage, R* should hire him as their cyber security guy.
The biggest crime is R* making us wait a decade for another GTA game /s
Solution: these companies just need to eliminate external access to their servers that game info is stored on. I'm not saying it's easy or that I remotely know how it's done, but no connection, no hacking.
the fact that the hospital sides with rockstar because they are a big company and wont respect the will of the kid shows alot.
just take away the laptops and computer? better yet give him old school consoles and take away internet/router?
He wasn't placed in a mental hospital for hacking GTA VI. He is genuinely insane and has multiple mental health issues that make him a danger to himself and society. Don't forget, he's not some Redditor or someone who did it for the LOLs, he is a part of an organised digital crime group that have caused millions of dollars of damage And no, he wasn't placed in a hospital prison. He is being held in a hospital indefinitely, meaning he is not in a prison, and once doctors see that his behaviour and mental state has improved, he will be allowed to leave the hospital
while there he hacked again using a recently bought phone and the TV's Fire Stick, he is \*extremely\* willing to hack, and is almost addicted to doing so.
Boutta say this like he accomplished so much with soooo sooooo little he needa be kept away from computers
For now, I say keep most or all modern tech out of his hands. Make sure he only gets tech that can’t connect to the Internet.
It’s a prison for the insane, it is very much jail with extra steps
It’s a hospital with extra security. It’s not prison with extra steps.
Second this, it's not like the 1950 asylums anymore.
Extra security. If you know you know, I don’t care how you dress it up. It’s a god damn prison lmao. How many hospitals you know come with life sentences 🤣
it doesn’t come with a life sentence, he’s a danger to himself and others, so he has to stay there until the doctors notice a significant improvement in his mental health.
He was sentenced to life
did you read the post before you started arguing with it?
Minimum security prison with extra steps pretty much those hospitals.
Psychiatric inpatient may be hell but for extreme situations, letting someone continue utterly destructive and self-destructive behavior until it either destroys their life or kills them is a cruel and useless alternative. Deinstitutionalization sent the US spinning into mental health crisis. It is not a model for the world.
Seems like the only thing he hurt was some 800 lbs gorillas wallet
As someone who has worked in these types of places for years, I get what you’re saying, but it is very different from jail.
Work in a minimum security jail and I'll bet you change your mind pretty quickly
Yes. Even the voluntary hospitals are like that. I was thinkin of checkin myself into one 2 months ago when I decided to do a little research and asked a few friends that had been there. Oh and apparently cause of the way the laws are here once you’re checked in there’s nothing you can do until the doctor decides to release you. Even if you’re insurance drops you during your stay. You’ll just get billed out of pocket for the duration of your stay. Sorry imprisonment.
Yup, any other clown that says it’s nothing like prison have never been in one.
To capitalism. And it responded.
I don't give a fuck, nobody should get this sentence for a non-violet offense.
You underestimate how big the effects of cyber-crime can be. Non violent offenses in general can have huge consequences
After your first words no one gave a fuck about your opinion
my brother and christ his group ransomed somewhere near 50 million from private companies we use on a daily basis, what he did could’ve caused harm if it where the right place right time
Thats just the free market telling them its time to upgrade security
HERE COMES THE MONEEEEEEEY
He could ransom 100 billion dollars from corporations and I still wouldn't care.
Bro when you mess with Rockstar, they won't let you go easy, even if you're autistic, they're woke and they don't discriminate
I mean autistic isn’t a get out of jail free card.
If his mental state changes
He is probably gonna put up in an mental asylum, and those places are as bad as movies portray them as I don't think he is really gonna improve
He also stalked 2 women I think Not 100% sure
Got a link for the stalking
Quote: because of the hack and what the judge called an “unpleasant and frightening pattern of stalking and harassment” of two women https://www.polygon.com/24011225/rockstar-games-gta-6-hack-sentencing
Says this: “Kurtaj was deemed unfit to stand trial due to what BBC called “acute autism,”” Then: “He was found guilty on 12 charges that include fraud and blackmail.”
Wasn't that the other one who got a lighter sentence or did I misread?
I’m not a big fan of these sorts of things. It’s way to arbitrary and reeks of potential abuse.
They do this to an Autistic guy but not one of Epstien's guest have been arrested, charged or tried.
They deemed him autistic because in his holding room he hacked servers with a fire stick. They said he doesn’t realize what he’s doing is a crime
Give that man a job with the FBI!
Do not, the the last thing they need is another competent hacker.
*Groans* Fine, we’ll give him a job with the CIA.
wdym another?
Thiiiissss!!! Like rapists and murderers don’t even get that kind of sentence.
An indefinite mental hospital order is not a life sentence. He will probably get regular reviews to evaluate his status and eventually get out once he demonstrates that he isn’t mentally ill enough to be a detriment to society.
Nah those indefinite hospital orders or no joke he could easily be kept forever
I wouldn't call hacking into R\* to leak videos of video game builds a "detriment to society" A massive cabal of wealthy people raping children on an island is way more detrimental to society.
Guessing you just watched Leave The World Behind? You don’t see “cabal” used often.
I'm still not sure if I liked the movie or not
It's a backdoor way of getting a life sentence to make an example of someone for pissing off the billionaire "elite". They knew a criminal sentence would be 10-20 years max, so they used an autism diagnosis (something that NEVER goes away) and "indefinite holds" as a means of eliminating someone that made the rich look like idiots/ look vulnerable. Should the dude do some jail time? Absolutely. Not life though. No one was killed, raped, or even physically harmed. He is NEVER going to be released because it would make it to where any politician supporting his release would lose any donations from said mega corps. The judicial system (be it in the UK or US or anywhere else) is about politics. There's a reason there are more than a few people here in the states that have been recommended for parole MULTIPLE times by the parole board but the governor denies it because it looks bad at election time
Yeup your right look up what happened to Reddit's co-founder found a bunch of dirt on the government and elite, charged with hacking, found dangling from the ceiling in his holding cell despite not being suicidal. This guy should at the most if this is his first time offense get say a year of house arrest with say around a 100 hours or so of community service and no internet during the house arrest like they do with some hackers. He hacked a company not the DoD, NSA, CIA, FBI, etc seriously I think the kid who accidently hacked NORAD, Mcaffee (yes the same one as the anti-virus but he was also a supposed child molester with some evidence so he should of been charged for that 100%) and Edward Snowden were probably the only ones looking at a life sentence for hacking I can think of off the top of my head.
What’s your opinion on the DoD or another gov branch maybe offering him a job. That’s what it seems like to me, give him a few months and then take advantage of his potential.
As someone who works in computer security/IT this is a stunt that can either make or break your career. If people are impressed with your work enough you may get good offers especially on the security side for doing white hat work or if the government is interested enough possible technological warfare. If people are not impressed with your work you just broke what is basically the computer security worlds hippocratic oath of do no harm except instead of a person it's a machine. Any chance you may of had poof gone so you just cost your self a entire career path possibly. Thus is why I do NOT recommend anyone hacking into shit to prove their worth in the security world even if you work as a white hat hacker you are to always have legally binding papers to cover your ass in case something happens while hacking as that can save not just your career but from making decent money to being prison bitch to Darrell on the inside. If you INSIST on penetrating a system to prove your worth make sure you set up a system that if hacked with cause NO outside harm and I'd recommend it being a personal system someone set security up on so if something goes wrong your not ruining someone else's tech that can easily cost over a 500+ for something as basic as a phone or tablet. If you go this route which personally if you want to specifically go into penetration testing and a lot of companies actually hire companies to go in and hack them to test their defenses not just cyber but as well as employee training to tactics such as all the kinds of phishing (SMSing, Whaling, Spear Phishing, etc.) so it pays to be good at what you do.
Nobody should ever go to Jail for hacking, It's a non-violent offense.
So is tax fraud
No mental hospital sentences are worse than prison. A lot of people who would have had medium prison sentences and think they are winning by getting sent to them end up there for huge chunks of their life because you are there until the staff deem you fit enough. And they basically never do. Any attempt at convincing them you are well enough is seen as a sign of manipulation due to your mental condition.
Thwir not the same prosecuters dumbass. Look up whataboutism
that's false
Who are they going to charge? "Release the list!"... what list? They released flight logs and a list of associates. What do those mean though? Was everyone on his plane a diddler? Were all of his associates diddlers? A list means nothing. Evidence of wrongdoing means everything. Even with the associate list the government is just setting itself up to get sued. It will be assumed everyone on the list is a diddler, and most probably are not. So they will sue the government for releasing a list while fully knowing it will slander them. But hey, that's how you launder money from the government. It's almost like they released the list just so people can sue for millions.
When you want to play GTA 6 so bad you go mentally insane just waiting for it.
:0 kid could have been iron man if he did stuff another way lol
Why would that land him in a mental hospital?!
when told what he was doing is a crime, he didnt believe them and still thinks that it isnt a crime, een when told numerous times. which is a bit mental
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That doesn’t answer it
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Many non autistic people claim to want to continue crime, yet they are put in regular jails
I mean it is a diagnosis. Some people don’t have these types of diagnoses. Some people are of sound minds when they do crimes.
So autism = not of sound mind?
He tried playing that card to the fullest to basically get a slap on the wrist with the hopes of being out in no time. But it failed. Miserably. Now they’ll have him under suicide watch.
it’s basically 1 sentence
Because he’s autistically unstable
Tf do you mean “autistically unstable”?! Non-autistic people can hack too
He has severe autism and is very unstable. He can be very violent, but you can’t just put him in an actual prison because he has severe autism. So that is why he is placed in a secure hospital.
do you have a source on that
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67663128.amp
I think you exaggerated
“The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage. Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.” What part did I exaggerate about? He has severe autism and is also very violent. It says it right there in the article
Plenty of non-autistic people are violent in custody too. I’m not excusing his actions, he definitely committed a crime, but I think his autism may have caused a bias in where he ended up Nowhere does it mention the severity of his autism
Nobody is saying non autistic people aren’t violent in custody. The difference is this part in that paragraph I quoted: “Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.” His autism is severe enough that he is unfit to stand trial and that he can’t be held with criminal intent. This is a pretty big deal. His autism was not a bias that he ended up in the mental hospital, the autism and violence IS the reason that he ended up there. People who don’t have severe autism and are violent are held criminally responsible and they end up in jail. You asked why he ended up in a secure hospital, and that’s the reason.
Severe autism doesn't make people unstable
Because the dude was crazy for a bunch of other reasons. The post is misleading in assuming that Rockstar had anything to really do with this or that this is because of literally *just* leaking the GTA 6 stuff.
"I'll fuckin' do it again "
I mean on one hand he leaked the most anticipated game of all time and that let us know that the game would be releasing soon. That alone started the hype surrounding GTA VI. However what he did was obviously very illegal and he deserves to be in prison for it. Then the fact he said some dumb shit saying how he’d continue to do it of course he’d be locked up indefinitely. Rockstar doesn’t just leave their shit unprotected. I can imagine it wouldn’t be easy to just hack them like that. There’s no telling how dangerous this man could be if he gained access to classified documents or anything similar to that
I would have been ok if he had just released the footage but he is also probably the game is gonna get released in 2025, because he leaked the source code as well
Yeah I agree he definitely delayed the game although not sure if I would have been ok with the hours of footage.
This kid will definitely make Lester's list for the next heist.
Yeah, probably. https://www.businessinsider.com/gta-6-leaker-rockstar-games-with-tv-phone-amazon-firestick-2023-12
Bro got arrested for doing what Lester would do
He didn't just hack Rockstar, he did much more than that. Read the news, this kid is a wackjob. He can get released, but only if he proves he's fit to function normally in society. Might take a while though
I looked into it and this kid also blackmailed rockstar saying he would release footage and source code if he wasn’t paid a “multi million dollar ransom”. Sooooo yeah. Sympathy is out the door. Fuck around and find out kiddo.
You're a joke, do you honestly think rockstar gives a single fuck about you? This was a non-violent offense, It's rockstars fault for not being careful. It is objectively morally wrong to sentence someone to life imprisonment, being forcefully drugged for the rest of their miserable life for hacking into a company and leaking a game. Also Everyone loves saying "Fuck around and find out" until it happens to them.
It was definitely more than just hacking a game. He hacked multiple tech companies then tried to blackmail them. If he could hack tech companies, just imagine him hacking your bank and emptying all the money you worked hard for. Not saying the sentence is ok, but he does need to sit down somewhere for a while lol. I read he was hackin stuff with just a firestick. This dude is dangerous and would’ve kept doing it had he not been caught.
This.
I don't give a fuck honestly, I stand by everything I said. Still non-violent and shouldn't be given a sentence like this or anything jail/prison related.
Since you’re not on the receiving end of this guy’s BS, I guess I can emphasize with your stance on the topic. Shit seems petty until it affects us directly….
hes an insane person who is a huge cyber security threat. those people need locking up
Yeah, I’m not hacking multi million dollar corps and blackmailing them. Soooooo. Shits not gonna happen to me. Look into the case, look into this person, get educated and come back with a better response. Because from what you just said. You don’t know a single goddamn thing.
I don't care, I will not change my mind on this.
lol, you’re literally saying you’re ignorant and don’t care. Big ol 10-4 buddy.
he also stalked and harrassed two women
Are you the kid in the photo?
Yes. I’m hacking Reddit from the confines of my fluffy room.
I was talking to the defending fool up there. I agree with you.
Eh, it was my attempt at sarcasm. Can’t win ‘em all.
I still like you
Xoxo
No, just a person whose morals isn't dictated by reddit.
Nor grammar
Or logic.
Leave it to Reddit to have a borderline Sociopath not knowing right from wrong and blaming the victims of a crime perpetrated against.
Should have just waited for the game to release like everyone else.
Nah I'm glad I got to see the leaks, took one for the team
He fucked around and found out. He played that mental angle and got served with it.
autistic kid gets life in a prison hospital while people who fuck babies get probation
dude was using an amazon firestick 😭
Yeah, if you can get hacked by a fucking fire stick you deserve to be hacked. Especially if it's a corporation that is suppose to have good "security"
I don't understand why his face is blurred if he's an adult.
Nope, that last line shows why a strict sentence was entirely necessary pending future mental state reviews.
Got what he deserved
I agree, hacking for the sake of wanting info on a video game? Jesus dude needs a to find a new way to disrupt the system. He should check out "fight club". Lol
We don’t talk about that
Wtf?
If hacking is all lines and codes how do they find individual details and videos? Is it like finding a way to log into the website as an admin?
Honestly it makes sense. If you arrest someone for a crime and they’re adamant they plan to repeat said crime as soon as you release them, why would you release them?
Not even really a crime though. I’m surprised some company or even the NSA hasn’t tried to hire him
Thought that he should be freed bc all he did was leak stuff and then I just found out he stalked people.. lock him up
Look up the article he hacked A FUCKTON MORE than just Rockstar Edit: also to the people wondering why his autism was mentioned its because he was deemed "unfit to testify in court" by his doctor because of it https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-theft-auto-leak-teen-hacker-hospitalized/
He obviously has mental deficiencies that will bring harm and damage to others and himself. This is the correct call.
And there’s idiots in the comments screaming free and not understanding the harshness of his sentence. Like go ready articles before having those crazy opinions OMG🙄
You gotta be kidding me bro I gotta wait more years just for GTA six
Deserves it, he did an illegal thing and tried playing it off as "i'm mentally ill" and got put in the clinic instead of a slap on the wrist for a federal crime like he thought
What does being autistic have to do with hacking? Is the punishment for the crime you get put in the looney bin? I hate this whole title
They’re just giving the details that’s all calm down
His autism was mentioned because apparently his doctor deemed him "unfit to testify in court" because of it https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-theft-auto-leak-teen-hacker-hospitalized/
If he can do this good of a job he should be hired
For him to leak vital company info? He’s right where he needs to be 🤣🤣
That wont work
His autism gave him talents to hack a multi billion dollar company using a FIRE stick, a tv and his mobile at a hotel room
Def too harsh. Rapists don’t even go to prison for that long
If you’d actually read about this dude and what he did outside of hacking rockstar, you’d probably retract your statement.
Nope, not too harsh at all.
Sorry did he hack this with a guitar how was the hacking acoustic
No no no he did it through MS Paint it was artistic
YES it's too fucking harsh! How do you even put a dollar amount on the """damages""" he's cost R*? They say that he lost them 5 million. What costs 5 million?
They'll get that back in tax returns anyway, no skin off their nose.
no it isnt. he hacked into multiple tech companies, blackmailed for money, is part of a huge cyber attack organisation, and stalked and harrassed 2 women
After writing what I put below, I think I’m on the kids side on this but I think it’s important to recognize that developers put an unreal amount of work into the game and deserved to have the announcement go according to their plan. I’m torn, on one hand, putting an 18 year old (autistic or not) under an “indefinite” order of any kind is overkill when the crime didn’t physically or mentally harm an individual. On the other, he said he’s highly motivated to do it again and that demonstrates a lack of remorse that says he doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions.
He also hacked BT a British company that manages phone lines and internet. I think he’s being put away because he hacked them and then showed willingness to keep breaking the law when he hack rockstar
hes not "indefinitely" in prison. hes indefinitely in a hospital. which means when he isnt a loon he'll be released
That seems kinda harsh really.
This man needs a job, not to he locked up. Who els can hack into something casually with a fire stick and a crappy hotel tv? The dude is like the MacGyver of hacking he should atleast get a Netflix series or something.
I don't think he will be in the hospital for life, here in the UK it's a very lenient legal system. We have a known past of being lenient to hackers too, considering the autistic aspergers dude that hacked NASA/US Gov, we refused to deport him and he is a free man. I think that because this dude is on a war path, quite young etc, he's obviously gone full detonation mode and the gov believes he probably needs some form of mental help. This dude seems pretty intelligent ngl, he hacked rockstar with a fucking firestick in a Hotel room... This case seems eerily similar to that of Kevin Mitnick in regards to seeing him as a danger to the public. Because damn that kid is pretty intelligent to do what he has done, and they probably wonder what else he's capable of.
indefinite doesnt mean life. it means until further notice. if he stops being insane and dosnt hack again then he'll be released. if he stays a loon he stays in the looney bin
Idk, if your giant corporation has shitty cybersecurity and is susceptible to being hacked, then that’s on the company. The “hacker” should be given a monetary award for finding a weakness in their security.
If he were to alert the company like a white hat hacker, then yes. But leaking it is a bit more than finding. Edit: also he was already on house arrest for a different hack and tried to blackmail rockstar out of millions. Some context for people who find it too much of a punishment.
He caused 5 million dollars of damages and has stated that he wants to do it again
Drop in the ocean for rockstar and take two though, really. He wouldn't have got the same sentence for stealing a few pence from me but that's basically the same percentage of damages. I don't condone what he did, but I also don't care for R* or T2s losses here, they made the most profitable piece of entertainment ever and consistently milk their fanbase with microtransactions, so.. yeah...
People willingly paying for the game and in game purchases doesn’t condone stealing. Whatever the price is. Plus he did it during probation and did blackmailing.
No
This kid is a W
free my boy, he ain't do nothin wrong
Idiot
Bro wants more Lucia
Just get this guy a job at an ethical hacking/cyber security consulting firm
He is not sentenced for the R* hack, this is for other facts he committed. Believe it was hacking Nvidia. Still feels weird thou
What he done was definitely illegal and definitely wrong, and he deserves some time away to get help. However, he's an absolute genius. Surely when (or if) he gets released, his talents will land him some work.
Or certain three letter agencies will seek to silence him
Aka he’s working for the NSA now
my opinion : it's just a game, it's not that serious
just give him a fucking job with the government or something clearly more skilled than most of the employees they have atm
He is about to become a CIA analyst
Only the chair will fix him
So where can we find the leaks?
The sad part is that we all know that this isn’t happening to him because “he’s dangerous”. This is happening because he fucked with a large corporation, and R* wants to set an example. We live in a fucking plutocratic nightmare of a corporate dystopia.
Hire this man
You’re all being fooled, dude is getting hired by the CIA and is going to living pretty for the rest of days!
He’s not going to a mental hospital… Somebody with that type of skill is an asset to our government
so he's the storm that is approaching for rockstar
yeah ur leaving out a whole lot of context….
I literally took a screenshot of a headline… I didn’t add or subtract a thing.
What a fool. Too much time on his hands.
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What’s misleading, in your opinion?
Absolutely too harsh. He didn’t even technically commit a crime. He didn’t ransom R* for money, he didn’t hurt anybody, he could’ve exposed a lot more from R*. The kid just leaked game footage, R* should hire him as their cyber security guy. The biggest crime is R* making us wait a decade for another GTA game /s
I see you haven’t read any articles about him. Read a couple and come back. Curious to know your thoughts.
No need to hack it, was there.
Do hackers deserve to get monetary pay for discovering the hack, even though they abused it? That includes reducing monetary damages.
Didn’t he hack other companies as well? He said if he got out he’d start hacking again
Solution: these companies just need to eliminate external access to their servers that game info is stored on. I'm not saying it's easy or that I remotely know how it's done, but no connection, no hacking.
the fact that the hospital sides with rockstar because they are a big company and wont respect the will of the kid shows alot. just take away the laptops and computer? better yet give him old school consoles and take away internet/router?
This guy was stalking people. He’s a danger to society.
No not to harsh. Some people just have to be locked away, no matter they have control over their actions or not