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16-Year-Old Hacker Cybercrime Mind, Big Tech Success – Software & Applications

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A 16-year-old man with his mother near Oxford, England, may have been behind hacker attacks by a gang of criminals known as Lapsus $, targeting giants like Microsoft and Vodafone, creating economic damage and concerns. Cyberkura. Bloomberg News reports that the gang’s full team will have seven members, but the boy will be the group’s coordinator. Unidentified, investigation is still ongoing.

In recent weeks, cybercriminals have attacked the Lapsus $ gang, such as Nvidia, Okta, Microsoft (which stole the source code of programs known and used with Bing and Cortana), and Samsung. According to Nvidia, the robbery was 1TB of data, 190GB stolen from Samsung, calculated by 200GB Vodafone.

Bloomberg says the investigation is not over yet, but he has left traces online, indicating that his nicknames can be traced back to “Breachbase” and “White”.

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