Court finds two teenagers carried out high profile hacks as part of cyber crime rampage
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A court heard Kurtaj leaked clips of the unreleased Grand Theft Auto 6 game while on bail in a Travelodge hotel.Kurtaj is autistic and psychiatrists deemed him not fit to stand trial so he did not appear in court to give evidence. During their spree the hackers regularly celebrated their crimes publicly and taunted victims on the social network app Telegram in English and Portuguese.Jurors heard that the unnamed teenager started hacking with Kurtaj in July 2021 having met online.
The jury were shown Telegram group chats of the gang instructing someone they'd hired to call the Nvidia staff help desk pretending to be an employee in an attempt to get log in details for the firm.
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