Thursday, April 19th 2007
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Valve hacked
MaddoxX, a member of the No-Steam forums, has managed quite a feat; he has hacked into Valve's computers. He has managed to get access to Cyber Cafe data, as well as several hundreds of credit card numbers, and Valve's balance sheet.
At the moment, he is awaiting some response from Valve, which does not seem to be too concerned.
Source: DailyTech
At the moment, he is awaiting some response from Valve, which does not seem to be too concerned.
Source: DailyTech
26 Comments on Valve hacked
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
2. What makes him believe he should distribute the personal information he obtained? What is the purpose of causing so much distress and hurt for so many people?
3. He needs to get laid.. REALLY badly ;)
a) one of the links inside contains illegal obtained Credit card numbers
b) that site is nothing but how to play steam games illegaly...
No-Steam work fantastically (can play on all servers), get all the games without a hitch. But one day steam used some new time-stamp system and screwed up everything. But the team still made virtual steam emulators that allows you to get on, but you can only play on cracked servers, but single player works fine.
I was sad when they changed the system. But now i own almost all valve made game. 250+ bucks to valves 9million dolor bank account ;)
1. Its got bots
2. Test skins/sprays before i put it in the normal CS1.6
3. Training, verse Expert bots
4. Map testing
5. Chill off from fucking hackers that appear every morning.
This is gonna cost them big time.
And to all those yelling GET A LIFE NERD
Theres uaually a lot more politics behind something like this rather than whats reported by the news.
And the fact he obtained not an insecure area of ZOMG EPISODE 2?!! rather, FINANCIAL data.... shows a lot more than you think. (By not wasting his time, he has shown he's 100% serious. any script kiddie would just get game data that would mean NOTHING, and is easily leaked by dev's.)
If an episode 2 ss is leaked, boohoo. Financial data can be a HUGE financial liability when being hacked, and this publicly known is a hit on valves poor rep as it is, not to mention legal issues.
Why do you hate Valve just because they're protecting themselves from piracy/theft? Half-Life was a revolution to FPS games, and HL2 is #1 rated PC game on IGN. Valve is a very respectable company devoted to quality, and they deserve the right to protect themselves from cheap-asses with no jobs.
I said if you're going to hack Valve, steal something cool, like Episode 2 - you'd get more positive respect from the gaming community.
Edit: seems to have been resolved, article has italic statment at the bottom.
"There has been no security breach of Steam. The alleged hacker gained access to a third-party site that Valve uses to manage the commercial partners in its Cyber Café program. This Cyber Café billing system is not connected to Steam. We are working with law enforcement agencies on this matter, and encourage anyone with more information to e-mail us at Catch_A_Thief@valvesoftware.com."
and the anti steam site seems to be down as well.
Valve have NEVER replied to ANY of my emails regarding non-functional products so I'm happy they have to spend time doing something other than raking in cash for selling non-physical items... When are bloody Portal and HL2 Ep'2 out eh???
and I'm highly doubting about the "respect" he wants from the "gaming community" for leaking episode 2.
"steal something cool" or "steal something that hurts".
I also love how everyone assumes "go get out of your basement you lifeless nerd" when he's probably got much more of a life outside of VIDEO GAMES than most people here do.
You don't learn to hack these things by sitting in your moms basement playing counterstrike being a script kiddie.
Notice how most white hat hackers now in the industry are ex black hats?
want some better FPS games,
Quake1 and 2
tribes
Unreal
all of those kick the crap out of halflife :)
i will laugh if steam and such get in deap shit for this, personaly i couldnt get any responce from valve on problems i have had with products i have owned fromt them, not ever a automated responce......at least they parted with VUG i give them props for that, VUG and ATARI need to be nuked(litterly, nuke france where they are located!!!!)