Valve and FBI try to get tricky

[Trooper110]

Valve Tried to Trick Half Life 2 Hacker Into Fake Job Interview | Threat Level from Wired.com

And fail....

[Rand{CLR}]

Interesting--it mentions our good buddies at Mygot, and names them as the "true" culprits.

-Rand

[WalkinTarget]

That PDF is interesting to read through ... lot of info in there.

[Toryu72]

that was interesting and i do remember when it happened to, suddenly the game was out and could make some downloads of it.

I wonder how many made an download hmmm

[BigTwinky]

cool article to read.

I remember reading similar things about Mafiaboy, a Montreal kid who did some denial of service crap a while ago against ebay, amazon and other big commcercial websites.

He now does work in the computer security business.

[K PhaNTOM]

Oooooooooh, so that's how the 1sk do their dirty deeds.

[WalkinTarget]

Valve claims in those docs that their lost revenue amounted to $250,000,000.


That's a lotta moola !!

[AmazingRedd]

wasnt this a while back?? when he claimed to hacked in valve and acquired hundreds of customers CC accounts. 2006 i think

[WalkinTarget]

RK, he was just snooping around. The Mygot guys were a bit more criminal in their intent (not that what he was doing wasn't criminal).
The rumors were that Steam was hacked at the time, but that turned out to be a false alarm, as it was only the developer network that was infiltrated, NOT the Steam servers with the credit card database stores.