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An ex-guildie just posted me this news article from clanbase.

Hundreds of Cheater's details unveiled

Today, on Crossfire.nu, Fusen has unveiled he has managed to hack to one of the biggest cheat-making community websites, Netcoders.be and extract solid proof and personal information on hundreds of cheaters.

Yesterday, it was already reported that netCoders was forced to shutdown its site due to security issues at hand. This was confirmed by Fusen who declared that he was the mastermind for downloading nC's databases.

"I got admin access to the netcoders forum and then watched the tracker status page for a couple of nights to see who among our little scene of ET players cheats", he says. "The tracker page in the screenshots is hosted on the netcoders.be site and reads from a database of etb0t and rshook activity log tables.

When you load up either cheat, etb0t or rshook it will phone home to authenticate itself, because you have to pay for both cheats. When it authenticates itself, the script that sends back the confirmation that the cheat is being used be a legitimate customer, it will write down what server you are playing on, and will every minute or so continue contacting the script to constantly update the ip of the server you are playing on." It resulted in a massive list of hundreds of gamers who cheat in games such as Enemy Territory, Call of Duty 2, Quake 4, Quake 3 and Soldier of Fortune.

The recent events have triggered into a huge witch-hunt to unveil the real identities of these players, which have so far resulted in various busts including some "respected" and high-skilled players in the Enemy Territory scene. Allegedly, they are using various different types of bots including humanized aimbots, which are very hard to detect.

Fusen has released various lists of IP's, email dresses of those who recently decided to buy a cheat.

In response, netCoders has stated they will consider legal actions against the Fusen. "Hi 2 u Fusen, you got a serious problem, u know about Law? If not you will see what it is." is currently in the topic of their IRC channel.

In addition, they also released a statement on their website. They have announced a reward of $ 1,000 to anyone who can provide serious information on him and his possible accomplishers.

It is clearly visible that netCoder's lucrative business had suffered a severe beating as they are now threatening to ruin Enemy Territory with free undetectable cheats to allow gamers to cheat during clan wars and league matches.

Crossfire.nu and Fusen have called any gamer to verify the email adresses in order to see if the real identities can be unveiled and ultimately ban them from any leagues.

For more information on the cheaters that have been busted so far, go here.

Source: http://www.clanbase.com/news.php?nid=236606

I did a quick search and didn't find anything so hopefully this isn't a repost!

Surely the cheat site has no legal standing as what they were doing was illegal anyhoo? Still made me laugh, score one for the good guys ;)
 
serves the aimbot hackers right, i take my hat of to the guys that hacked them. about time someone did this.

Touché to all the numnuts who think they can get away with cheating.

ags
 
was gonna post this myself but never got round to it.

its good that the cheats were outed sadly there was at least one that was a clanbase admin and numerous others that played league clan games.

think the cheats may be right with regard to the legality issue, it is very much illegal to break a website and take the data whereas it is legal to code a cheat in much the same way its fine to code a crack for an app etc just not legal to distrubute it.

play wolfenstein et myself one of the most hacked games there is sadly.
what makes things sad is the comments about players that had been outed how many had trusted them for a long time and how humanised it looked.
 
Good that he did this. Too bad he's probably going to get fined. Cheating in games is so pointless. And a company making money off cheats is even more sickening.
 
CDj-Rossi said:
Hacking in a computer game is hardly 'illegal' as such though is it?

depends on the game ofc but most of them state in you user agreement that you wont use hacks. all games in steam do this, and wow for definate. and pretty much every other game ever will too
 
Unless he gets a judge who's an FPS fan who'll see the righteousness of his crusade and impose the minimum possible fine...:D Maybe even community service if he's lucky - towelboy at an all-female nudist colony perhaps? :p
 
theDave said:
depends on the game ofc but most of them state in you user agreement that you wont use hacks. all games in steam do this, and wow for definate. and pretty much every other game ever will too

But anyone cheating won't have broken the law in doing so, the legal consequences of hacking a server and stealing personal information etc are potentially prison and extremely large fines depending on where it occured.

Jokester
 
Cheats are against the EULA so the game company 'could' sue you if the could prove they have been damaged while hacking a website/network is a criminal offence (depending on country etc)
 
Problem is now, they're making some of these cheats free for use in matches etc now in response to these revelations, meaning it could really make a horrid dent in these games due to no detectable cheats.
 
theDave said:
depends on the game ofc but most of them state in you user agreement that you wont use hacks. all games in steam do this, and wow for definate. and pretty much every other game ever will too
That doesn't make it actually illegal though, as there's no law out there that states "You may not cheat in a computer game"

Hacking a website, publishing a customer list, and potentially ruining a business (after all that's all they are, a company selling a piece of software over the internet like any other) is definitely illegal though.
 
Isn't hacking a game manipulating the game code, modifying a string of it from the original source :confused:

This is something that the EULA states is not permitted I'm sure.

Either way HA HA HA about time some of these jerks got some payback, cheats and hackers in games have ruined hours of my fun year after year, its one of the reasons I don't play MOH:AA anymore and that was a serious TOP game a few years back :(

Stu
 
technically its not, there will be a loophole concerning the fact this cheat company is SELLING cheats for certain games, WITHOUT paying royalties to the companies who made the games.

Thats against EULA regulations.

Also in EULA in some cases it states that none of the code can be manipulated, some games even go into cases by saying aimbots etc are breaking the terms of use.


They dont have a leg to stand on tbh!
 
The EULA? Don't make me laugh, the EULA isn't worth the virtual paper it's written on.

You can't just chuck anything you want into a document, knowing nobody reads it, and expect clicking the OK button to make it all legally binding. If it was, don't you think someone would have tried "By clicking OK you agree to hand over all your posessions to me" by now, and have bankrupted every gamer in one fell swoop?

The EULA basically exists as a company's terms of service. As in, they will permit you to use a product as long as you follow their rules. That doesn't mean it has any legal standing though. Being drunk isn't against the law, but that doesn't mean a bartender will serve you if you are.

Cheating in a game is not illegal.

eracer2006 said:
technically its not, there will be a loophole concerning the fact this cheat company is SELLING cheats for certain games, WITHOUT paying royalties to the companies who made the games.
I'm pretty sure you don't need to pay royalties to sell a cheat or mod for a game.
 
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