Comment on Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison

twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FunderPants@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This sounds all impressive, and MacGyver level. But I need more info. Did he just cast his phone screen to the TV so he could see better while he used ssh or ftp in to a poorly secured port at Rockstar or did he do some crazy shit.

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, a phone is literally a portable computer. It’s like saying he made a bomb using nothing but a hairclip, a rubber band, and a grenade.

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  • scrion@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

    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.

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    • FunderPants@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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• Veedem@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is fucking wild

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