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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3720 Joined: 13 Feb 2008     | If I was Valve, I'd hire him. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 706 Joined: 1 Jan 2008   | If I was FBI, I'd hire him. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 763 Joined: 25 Feb 2008     | Let this be a lesson to you all, there is no escape from Gabe Newell... |
Press Junketeer Posts: 442 Joined: 6 Feb 2008  | Team High Tech Crime...I wish police/security groups had such kewl names |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3720 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
C'mon, the guys suffered enough. ;) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1123 Joined: 13 Jan 2007  | If I was 3D Realms, I'd hire him. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 185 Joined: 12 Jun 2008  |
Sounds like it should be preceeded by "From the people who brought you..." Oh crap, anyone in here remember that awful Japanese game where you fight as an anthropomorphic killer bunnyrabbit in a school uniform? |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3720 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
Which one? |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 64 Joined: 20 Jun 2008    | Nuu, MaddoxX :( http://maddoxx.deviantart.com/ Was it a girl or a guy? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2354 Joined: 10 Mar 2008   |
Ehh, i bet there are plenty of Madoxes around the globe, i could have sworn that Madoxx was an admin/mod in a forum i used to go to. |
Paperboy  Posts: 14 Joined: 30 Jun 2008 | If I was rich I'd hire him....I'd be surprised if he wasn't offered some sort of "work for us get out of jail early" thing.... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 407 Joined: 13 Jul 2006 |
Like... Team America: World Police? ;-) |
Paperboy  Posts: 13 Joined: 18 Oct 2007 |
Do they travel around with a talking cat and sing a cheesy song before attempting to catch anyone? |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 689 Joined: 7 Nov 2007    | Wasn't the guy who leaked HL2 beta also a german? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1108 Joined: 9 Dec 2007  |
In light of this, Interpol doesn't really sound that bad at all. |
Beat Writer Posts: 185 Joined: 12 Jun 2008 | Yes it does, Interpol sounds like something you need a "special injection" to get rid of! "What's wrong with her?" *whispers* "Oh she's got Interpol...I heard she came back from some non-gamer event and it was all over her...well, you know..." |
Copy Clerk Posts: 106 Joined: 27 Apr 2008 |
Obviously not; these guys managed to actually catch him. Team High Tech Crime > Team Sucket. |
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Valve Hacker Arrested
A hacker who gained notoriety by breaking into Steam in 2007 has been apprehended by Dutch police in the town of Maastricht.
Known as MaddoxX, the hacker was able to bypass Valve's security in a third-party Cyber Cafe file server and access information including credit card numbers, transaction statements, Valve's bank balance and other information. He posted the information in a message on the No-Steam forum, saying, "We also don't want money from VALVe. We want a simple message on their site."
According to the Dutch Ministry of the Interior, however, MaddoxX did not always demonstrate such magnanimity, claiming he had run through "13 million Euros playing poker online and shopping for notebooks, flat screens and MP3 players" before we was caught. A Shacknews report says that along with the Valve incident, the hacker is also being charged with breaking into an Activision server and downloading a pre-release version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
The arrest was reportedly carried out by Team High Tech Crime, although a Google translated Dutch website referring to the unit called it the High Tech Crime Team, which sounds somewhat less silly but also not nearly as funny under the circumstances.
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