Teenager found liable for GTA 6 hack did it in a Travelodge where police put him after he was arrested for another hack

pcgamer.com:

A court in the UK has found that an 18-year-old from Oxford, Arion Kurtaj, was a part of the Lapsus$ hacking group responsible for hacking a range of tech firms including Nvidia and Rockstar Games. These intrusions resulted in a major leak of footage from the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6, a game that Rockstar has yet to officially unveil, and the court heard that Kurtaj leaked the clips from a Travelodge hotel while he was already on bail after being arrested for another hack.

The trial was at Southwark Crown Court and lasted seven weeks and the jury was asked to determine whether or not Kurtaj was liable for the acts alleged, not if they were done with criminal intent. The judge ruled Kurtaj unfit to stand trial, following assessment by psychiatrists, so the accused did not give evidence.

The jury found Kurtaj liable for all 12 charges (via Bloomberg). Alongside this, a 17-year-old who cannot be named because of their age pled guilty to two hacking charges, was found guilty of another, and cleared over two more.

The pair had met online before beginning to hack together in July 2021. Lapsus$ targeted telecoms firms BT and EE on August 1, 2021, demanding a $4 million ransom. The ransom was not paid but SIM details were used to steal £100,000 worth of cryptocurrency from linked wallets.

Both hackers were arrested on January 22, 2022 and released pending further investigation. They kept hacking, and were found to have been involved in Lapsus$' successful attack on Nvidia in February 2022. The group stole and leaked Nvidia internal data, threatening to release more unless a ransom was paid. This hack targeted Nvidia employees with phone calls and late-night texts

Shortly after this, Kurtaj was doxxed by rivals, before both