I've said this a few times, but back in college I lived and breathed Counter-Strike. In fact, I'd even say I majored in the damn game. Well, one of the biggest turn-offs to me, after a while, was the rampant hacking and cheating that took place in CS. To continue this not-so-proud tradition, it seems some young hooligan hackers have decided to lash out on Valve and their much-maligned Steam by showing just how vulnerable the system really is ... allegedly.
From Next-Gen:
The owner of No-Steam, a site slanted against Half-Life and Counterstrike house Valve Software, claims to have hacked the developer’s servers, gaining access to sensitive info such as credit card numbers. No-Steam member MaddoxX claims to have gained access to credit card information, Valve balance sheets, cyber café and other files sensitive to both Valve and its customers.
"cIntX," who described himself as one of MaddoxX's "helpers" and answered a Next-Gen inquiry via MaddoxX's e-mail account, said that the hackers are not afraid of any legal repercussions. He added, "We are not happy [to exploit] Valve's security holes. We are just trying to show people how secure Valve actually is and how much [the company] is investing for your security."
It's also notable that the e-mail was injected with plenty of anti-Valve rhetoric, including claims that Valve "steals" consumers' money and the company's services and products "aren't worth" the money. cIntX also claimed that Valve deactivated MaddoxX's account "some years ago...without a good reason."
When asked what would happen to allegedly compromised credit card information, the "helper" said cryptically, "I'm not god I'm just a friendly guy."
Are these hackers justified in what they're doing, or are they complete a-holes for stealing our information?
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11:09 AM on 04.19.2007
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Just so you guys know, I hacked the Destructoid server, and stole sensitive information about Niero's mother. But I'm not God, I'm just a friendly guy.
news anymore?? or tradition???
now I wanna go watch that lame movie hackers...
As for the hackers... tools. All of them.
In RL, people have to die before a government will act.
Online, a company must be hacked before they spend cash on security. If this is true then it needed doing, blatantly. Once hackers give up on hacking OS's they'll move on to more common media, such as WoW (Which happens more frequent than is reported about). Sooner or later someone is going to scream "OMG Hacks!!11" or whatever, but it's necessary. From my viewpoint I'd appreciate companies focusing mainly on gameplay and just have a small team on security, then patch the hell out of it when it's out if it's viable. If it's steam it's automatic. So there's no excuse really.
ANTI-KITTY SPYWARE ACTIVATE!
Thanks for that Valve. We needed that.
YAYS!
I tell you what. Put your kitty avatar in this box over here and I'll put it in this trash compac- er, hiding spot, until the anti-kitty removal tool does it's scan.
You sick fuck..
I don't agree with hacking but a company that think it is okay to render peoples legally purchases copies useless should rethink what they're doing.
And to the person whose account was banned because of cheating: It isn't Valve's fault. It is the fault of other hackers who stole YOUR serial number. You were robbed by some "hacker" not by Valve. Someone used a key generator and got your key and then used it to go cheat in other peoples games and got banned. Valve had to ban that person because they were ruining the game for other people.
If only valve had introduced hardware locked Wiifriend codes they wouldn't have had to ban the account, just the offending machine. Of course if that were the case you'd still be waiting months for online play and the game you were most looking forward to would be fucking pokemon.
Also cocks.
ps these guys are still jackasses tho
well thats my rant for the day why cause im board and this is what happens when im able to get board. cya
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As for Valve behind hacked I HOPE these guys face some jail time because if my information gets leaked out I will raise hell. I don't see whats wrong about Steam I love it myself and have made many purchases from it.