We got him

Biohazzard56 · 2004-06-10, 06:11 PM

June, 10 2004 - Arrests have been made in several countries related to the break-in to Valve's network, theft of the Half-Life 2 source code, and release of the source code on the Internet.

"Within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved," said Gabe Newell, Valve's CEO. "It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were able to unravel what are traditionally unsolvable problems for law enforcement related to this kind of cyber-crime."

Thousands of tips were received related to the criminal activities, with a core group of people who were able to analyze and backtrack from these clues. Subsequent to these individuals being identified, Valve has been working with various national authorities to prepare cases against those involved, leading to these arrests.

"It was very uplifting to see how the community rallied and tracked these people down. Everyone here at Valve is once again reminded of how much we owe to the gaming community," added Mr. Newell.

For specific details on the arrests, please contact the Northwest Cyber Crime Task Force, Seattle, 206-262-2030.

Corrosion · 2004-06-10, 06:13 PM

I'll keep my leaked HL2, thx very much.

EineBeBoP · 2004-06-10, 06:17 PM

was gunna say...

Umm We caught Sadam a while ago buddy, but thanks for the heads up!

WNxMelock · 2004-06-10, 06:56 PM

Screw Valve, that company sucks. More power to the hackers.

Spee · 2004-06-10, 07:00 PM

No one cares. Im fairly certain everyone is over the whole "Delayed HL2" thing.

Im actually kinda disheartened. Didnt know the period for incrimination for these kinda things were so long.

HunterKiller · 2004-06-10, 07:11 PM

i could care less.

JetRaiden · 2004-06-10, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by WNxMelock

Screw Valve, that company sucks. More power to the hackers.

death to you! death to you NOW!

Darksim · 2004-06-10, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by Spee

No one cares. Im fairly certain everyone is over the whole "Delayed HL2" thing.

Im actually kinda disheartened. Didnt know the period for incrimination for these kinda things were so long.

Valves a good company, they came out and admitted the source code had nothing to do with the delay.

I also heard from a insider that works there is that the game comes out june 29

Biohazzard56 · 2004-06-10, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Darksim

I also heard from a insider that works there is that the game comes out june 29

If it was it would have already gone gold. Doom is scheduled for July 15th and that date is pretty much final. September is most likely the date for HL2 Release.

Corrosion · 2004-06-10, 07:56 PM

June 29th, HAH!

Setari · 2004-06-10, 08:09 PM

I dont care if the get the hacker. I care about when they get the game out.

AztecWarrior · 2004-06-10, 08:14 PM

Realistic theory: Woot.

Conspiracy theory: Valve faked the whole hacker attack- they actually had jack shit ready, and needed to buy time.

Indecisive · 2004-06-10, 08:39 PM

I dont care. If the damn company is gonna get all nazi ognoes on me, then I dont care. I mean, come on, two years because you cant keep track of some code? Delaying two years isnt going to fix that.

JetRaiden · 2004-06-10, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by AztecWarrior

Realistic theory: Woot.

Conspiracy theory: Valve faked the whole hacker attack- they actually had jack shit ready, and needed to buy time.

kinda true. they said HL2 was gonna be delayed whether that whole source code thing happened or not.l

AztecWarrior · 2004-06-10, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by JetRaiden

kinda true. they said HL2 was gonna be delayed whether that whole source code thing happened or not.l

Indeed.

"O M F G WE'VE BEEN HAXXED OMG OMG OMG HELP US WORLD! (ps: this isn't going to delay us at all. not at ALL.)