Hacker threatens Valve with releasing its customers financial data

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Hacker threatens Valve with releasing its customers financial data

by Konstantin Kornakov | Apr 20 2007 08:21 GMT | comments (4)
According to the latest reports currently circulating online a hacker could have gained illegal access to the servers of Steam, the content distribution system of Valve Software, creator of such prominent game titles as Half-Life and Counter-Strike. The hacker, calling himself MaddoxX, posted a message on an anti-Valve Internet forum on April 8. In this message he presented supposed proof of the break-in, such as Valve’s private financial details.
Other information in his post related to the company’s Cyber Café program, which allows cybercafe owners to run Valve’s games. According to the hacker, he gained access to private financial information, such as credit card and transaction details. In a message to Valve he also threatens the company with releasing all of its customers financial details into the public domain, potentially putting millions of people at risk.
So far there has been no official comment from Valve, which has lead to speculations from some quarters about a possible cover-up. Allegations have also been made that any threads regarding this issue that were posted in the official Steam forum were being deleted almost instantly. However, it is thought that the silence may be related to the ongoing investigation of these claims, which, if true, could pose a serious problem for Valve and its customers.
Source: http://www.viruslist.com/en/news?id=208274070
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I'll just put this here...

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:D
 
this is old news he got arrested for abusing credit cards and spending some silly amount of money on online casinos.

i think he was bragging about it at his school and thats how he got caught you can probably find an article about it via google
 
come to think of it 50p left my bank account about 2 years ago that i couldnt possibly find a cause for.

The "experts" at my bank called it "interest" whatever that is but now ive read this im off to close all my accounts cuz methinks it was my details being released by this uber hacker.

:D
 
i found the article about his arrest
http://digg.com/d1UbX7

this is how stupid the guy was.
“A 20 year old hacker was arrested on Tuesday evening in the Dutch town of Maastricht, after the youngster had previously hacked himself into game developers Activision and Valve. The evildoer is being charged and questioned for downloading Activision’s video game Enemy Territory: Quake War whilst it was still in development. Leaking the game would’ve led to estimated damages of 25 million US Dollars. Apart from hacking Activision, the hacker also broke into a third-party site used by Valve to handle the Cyber Café business partner program, which is part of the game distribution network Steam.The man from a country Austin Power’s dad doesn’t like distributed photos of his Valve hack as proof, using the very nerdy pseudonym MaddoxX. As if illegally entering the virtual premises of two game developers weren’t enough, Mr. MaddoxX is also being charged with stealing credit card data of 50.000 customers from an English tickets site. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the hacker managed to burn 13 million Euros playing poker online and shopping for notebooks, flat screens and MP3 players.
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idiot 13million euros playing poker :rolleyes: he could have made a few million euros and then gone into hiding
 
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