Seven youngsters arrested in reference to the Lapsus$ hacking group

City of London Police have arrested seven youngsters resulting from their suspected connections with a hacking group that’s believed to be the not too long ago prolific Lapsus$ group, BBC News reports.

“Seven people between the ages of 16 and 21 have been arrested in connection with an investigation into a hacking group,” City of London Police stated, in response to BBC News. “They have all been released under investigation. Our inquiries remain ongoing.”

Lapsus$ has taken duty for some main safety breaches at tech corporations, together with Nvidia, Samsung, Ubisoft, Okta, and Microsoft. On Wednesday, stories surfaced indicating an Oxford-based teenager is the mastermind of the group. City of London Police didn’t say if this teenager was amongst these arrested, in response to BBC News.

BBC News says it spoke to {the teenager}’s father, who was apparently unaware of his involvement with the group. “I had never heard about any of this until recently. He’s never talked about any hacking, but he is very good on computers and spends a lot of time on the computer,” the daddy stated, in response to BBC News. “I always thought he was playing games. We’re going to try to stop him from going on computers.”