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More Half-Life 2 theft details emerge

Posted by malebolgia on 16 July 2004 - 22:45 · 27 comments & 8422 views

British newspaper article sheds new light on gaming's most notorious code heist.

When Valve announced last month that a wave of international arrests had been made in the Half-Life 2 code theft, they directed questions to the FBI's Cybercrime Task Force. Task Force officers would only confirm arrests had been made but would not comment beyond that.

Luckily, the FBI's European counterparts are apparently more forthcoming. An article in yesterday's London Guardian outlined the Half-Life 2 code-theft arrests in the most detail to date. Besides talking about how the gaming community helped track down the perpetrators via online group-sleuthing, the article revealed several new details, including:

How the theft was perpetrated: According to the Guardian, "Having accessed Valve's server through a security-bypassing loophole in Windows, the hackers were able to download an early and hugely incomplete version of Half-Life 2 and posted it on the Internet for downloading via Usenet. A boxed version of the code was even on sale on the Ukrainian and Russian black markets."

News source: GameSpot

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(1 reply) #1 Posted by mrk on 16 Jul 2004 - 22:48: hmmm

#2 Posted by divertom15 on 16 Jul 2004 - 22:49: that doesnt look like much more than what i already heard

(3 replies) #3 Posted by BlindLabel013 on 16 Jul 2004 - 23:02: Lol, wow this site is slow on news.

#4 Posted by SIG on 16 Jul 2004 - 23:16: Excuse me but... I had to post this

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link to pic wasn't working well? bleh

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#5 Posted by EvErSoR on 16 Jul 2004 - 23:50: and what are the news?

#6 Posted by un0 on 17 Jul 2004 - 00:45: ...another delay in the making. heh

#7 Posted by specialtech on 17 Jul 2004 - 00:53: This has been out for ages... just have to look around on the net to find this out. Perhaps this is valves way of gettig some recognition and awareness now that Doom III is out shortly?

#8 Posted by gazebee2001 on 17 Jul 2004 - 01:43: old news

#9 Posted by altermind on 17 Jul 2004 - 02:18: new to me!

#10 Posted by iczman on 17 Jul 2004 - 05:09: oh wait, so the hacker thing is real not just another excuses?
lol

#11 Posted by robpears on 17 Jul 2004 - 08:22: old news!

(1 reply) #12 Posted by N_B on 17 Jul 2004 - 10:27: Oh come on! Stop it with the "old news"-posts already!

#13 Posted by SoLiD_MasteR on 17 Jul 2004 - 12:26: naah so old !

#14 Posted by rheostat on 17 Jul 2004 - 17:01: ye olde news!

(1 reply) #15 Posted by chacho on 17 Jul 2004 - 20:14: wow, 18 comments and not one worth my time, or that of anyone else, apparently. idiots.

#16 Posted by plati on 18 Jul 2004 - 07:33: how is this different from the press release that valve released straight after the theft?

#17 Posted by ClubNinja on 18 Jul 2004 - 09:44: Lies Lies and more Lies ..

#18 Posted by deiong15 on 18 Jul 2004 - 17:09: i cant believe they still tell that lie that it was incomplete. thats why the full game was released bugs and all. will they never learn that lieing makes them look stupider

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(1 reply) #19 Posted by perochan on 19 Jul 2004 - 09:02: shut up with "Old News."

if u heard it already, why did u click the link? idiots.

#20 Posted by donachello on 19 Jul 2004 - 15:20: Old News...?

Give us new news not old please...?

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