On Friday, the City of London Police announced that a 17-year-old Oxfordshire kid had been detained on suspicion of hacking.
The City of London Police detained a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on the evening of September 22, 2022, according to the report, which added that “he is still in police custody.”
According to the department, the arrest was made as part of an investigation conducted in collaboration with the cybercrime division of the U.K. National Crime Agency.
Although the specifics of the inquiry was not made public, it is believed that the recent wave of high-profile breaches against Uber and Rockstar Games may be related to the law enforcement activity.
The same threat actor who goes by the handle Tea Pot is accused of carrying out both intrusions (aka teapotuberhacker).
For its part, Uber has blamed the breach on an attacker (or attackers) it suspects are members of the LAPSUS$ extortion ring, of which two are charged with fraud.
The real-world identity of the hacker responsible for the two instances is alleged to have been revealed on an illicit forum online, according to cybersecurity firm Flashpoint.
The business said on Friday that “the administrator on that site claimed that teapotuberhacker was the same person who had purportedly hacked Microsoft and “owned” Doxbin.”
This implies that the person that plays the teapotuberhacker and is also known by the identities White, Breachbase, and WhiteDoxbin is probably the same person who is regarded as “LAPSUS$’s apparent ringleader.”
These allegations may or may not be genuine, but if they are, it may help to explain the most recent arrest made by law authorities.