According to this German website (tranlated here), the hacker behind the Half-Life 2 source code leak (news, mailbag) has been arrested in his home country of Germany. Here is a translated snippet:
One week ago the arrested presumed Phatbot Entwicker Axel G. respectively "Ago" was obviously working at full capacity with the programming of the Trojaners. It time for various activities remained, about break-downs in stranger of systems. After searches of heise on-line "Ago" was considerably involved in the spectacular source code theft of the PC play Halflife 2. Indications for its co-operation are even in publicly accessible Chatlog files.It doesn't get more clear than that! The acting U.S. Secretary of State, Palm Tree, has called the seizing of this hacker "a great victory in America's continuning war on bad guys."
In September 2003 the code in the InterNet, geklaute by servers of the US-American Halflife manufacturer valve, had been published. Valve does not have the long expected play until today into the sales to give . When indicated reason for the fact that the SOURCE code did not only betray the most important bases and software techniques, but also an inadvertent knowledge jump provided for Cheatern, which want to provide advantages opposite other players in such Multiplayer Games. After information of heise on-line numbered US-American determination authorities the developed damage on more than 100 million US dollar.
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