The hacker behind the Rockstar leak that gave the world its first look at GTA 6 in 2022 has been released from a secure hospital. However, now that he has been deemed fit enough to be freed from the facility, that now means he will face a conventional criminal trial for his Rockstar-related crimes later this year.
BBC’s Joe Tidy confirmed on Bluesky that the hacker, Arion Kurtaj, has been released from the secure hospital in which he was being kept and moved to a normal prison. Kurtaj was technically given a life sentence and could only be released from the hospital when doctors deemed him fit enough to do so.
Clearly, the criteria required for Kurtaj to leave the hospital have been met, but that doesn’t mean he now gets to walk free. Now serving his sentence in a normal prison, Kurtaj will presumably remain there until he faces a full criminal trial in November of this year, coincidentally the same month that GTA 6 will be released, provided the game isn’t subject to another delay, which seems unlikely at this late stage.
Tidy reports that Snapchat images that appeared to show Kurtaj in prison had been circulating,...
