HL2 Source Thieves Busted

[CSN NewsBot]

As a follow up to the previous news about the hacker, comes new information about more arrests. Shacknews states that more arrests of other participants in the source code leak have been made.

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.

Be sure to check out the complete article for the rest of the details.

[Supersonic^]

About time n' all!

[Premo_Maggot]

w00t

[HowlinMadMurphy]

Edited by [user="181293"] @ [time="1086899324"]

Good work. Interesting article, albeit brief. I didn't realize that they'd been tracked down within a few days.



EDIT: Valve's sales account for 88% of the online action market?

[SteelV]

suckers, have fun in jail kthxbye

[/2etribution]

HowlinMadMurphy wrote..

EDIT: Valve's sales account for 88% of the online action market?

I just noticed that. Although, with upwards of 120,000 people on Steam alone at peak times, I suppose this could be true.

[asspennies]

Counter-Terrorists Win!

[HankPym]

Wow, Valve fans are like superheroes or something...neat!



Great news though, I'm glad to hear it.

[Tuxedo_Penguin]

asspennies wrote..

Counter-Terrorists Win!

Exactly.

[file13]

asspennies wrote..

Counter-Terrorists Win!

lol

[thor2488]

Good game, good luck in jail, kthxbye.

[wckd]

they got what they deserved.

now wheres my god damn HL2.

[xlokix]

im guessing july for half-life 2

[laserline5]

good ..they caught them

[Koraktor]

and now...

let them fight against a gargantua... ehhr... and a strider

with a crowbar!