{"id":124315,"date":"2022-03-24T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124315"},"modified":"2022-03-24T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T07:53:35","slug":"suspected-mastermind-of-lapsus-hacking-group-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/124315-suspected-mastermind-of-lapsus-hacking-group-found","title":{"rendered":"Suspected mastermind of Lapsus$ hacking group found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager living in the United Kingdom is suspected of being the mastermind behind the infamous Lapsus$ group that has hacked Samsung and Nvidia and is reportedly responsible for security breaches at Microsoft and Okta.<\/p>\n<p>Four researchers investigating the group believe that the group is led by a teen who goes by the online alias of \u201cWhite\u201d and \u201cbreachhouse\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He is suspected of running the group\u2019s activities in conjunction with another teenager who lives in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>However, the teen has not yet been charged as there is insufficient evidence to connect him to every hack that Lapsus$ has taken responsibility for.<\/p>\n<p>The teen&#8217;s mother has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-23\/teen-suspected-by-cyber-researchers-of-being-lapsus-mastermind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> spoken to the press. She indicated that she was unaware of the allegations around her son and has also declined to discuss or make him available for an interview.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124313-playstation-system-update-big-improvements-to-remote-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlayStation system update \u2013 Big improvements to Remote play<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager living in the United Kingdom is suspected of being the mastermind behind the infamous Lapsus$ group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":97820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[25788,25937],"class_list":["post-124315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","tag-lapsus","tag-mastermind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}