Valve hacker caught by police

[Shrygue]

via Computer and Video Games


A man who hacked into a third party Valve file server and stole the credit card numbers of Steam Cyber Café users has been caught by Dutch police.

The hacker, who went by the online handle MaddoxX, managed to break into a server containing credit card information, transaction amounts, Valve's bank balance and data that allowed the creation of counterfeit Cyber Café websites.

MaddoxX posted the information on a website, but didn't use the information for personal gain. According to ShackNews, he posted a message that said: "We also don't want money from VALVe, we want a simple message on their site."

Despite making a moral standing on that occasion, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior said that the 20 year old hacker had managed to "burn 13 million Euros playing poker online and shopping for notebooks, flat screens and MP3 players." Based on that, we're guessing he wasn't as morally resolute every time he came across personal data.

In addition to the Valve incident, he is also being charged with hacking his way into an Activision server and downloading an unfinished copy of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Which, if nothing else, is not the game you want to get caught hacking for.

[mcdougall57]

13 million? thats one hardcore thief

[Brainy142]

haha valve has no credit card info from me