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07-01-2008, 05:50 AM
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Back in April, a website used by Valve to manage its Steam-related Cyber Cafe business was hacked. As we reported then (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/19/valves-steam-service-hacked-credit-card-information-obtained/), the hacker, known as "MaddoxX," claimed to have gained access to a variety of sensitive data, including credit card numbers. Well, the jig is finally up.
A special Dutch police unit, "Team High Tech Crime" (certainly somehow related to G.I. Joe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe:_A_Real_American_Hero)), nabbed the culprit in the town of Maastricht on June 24. Dutch authorities report that he hacked an Activision server prior to the Valve job, obtaining a pre-release version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/quake-wars). He is also charged with stealing nearly 50,000 credit card numbers from a UK-based ticket sales service, using some of them to buy electronics and play online poker.
In lieu of a prison sentence, we suggest that "MaddoxX" be assigned to a work release program at Aperture Science.
[Via ITExaminer (http://www.itexaminer.com/PCs/tabid/75/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/994/Dutch-police-nab-Valve-hacker.aspx)]
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Back in April, a website used by Valve to manage its Steam-related Cyber Cafe business was hacked. As we reported then (http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/19/valves-steam-service-hacked-credit-card-information-obtained/), the hacker, known as "MaddoxX," claimed to have gained access to a variety of sensitive data, including credit card numbers. Well, the jig is finally up.
A special Dutch police unit, "Team High Tech Crime" (certainly somehow related to G.I. Joe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe:_A_Real_American_Hero)), nabbed the culprit in the town of Maastricht on June 24. Dutch authorities report that he hacked an Activision server prior to the Valve job, obtaining a pre-release version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/quake-wars). He is also charged with stealing nearly 50,000 credit card numbers from a UK-based ticket sales service, using some of them to buy electronics and play online poker.
In lieu of a prison sentence, we suggest that "MaddoxX" be assigned to a work release program at Aperture Science.
[Via ITExaminer (http://www.itexaminer.com/PCs/tabid/75/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/994/Dutch-police-nab-Valve-hacker.aspx)]
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