A man who hacked into a third party Valve file server and stole the credit card numbers of Steam Cyber Café users has been caught by Dutch police.
The hacker, who went by the online handle MaddoxX, managed to break into a server containing credit card information, transaction amounts, Valve's bank balance and data that allowed the creation of counterfeit Cyber Café websites.
MaddoxX posted the information on a website, but didn't use the information for personal gain. According to ShackNews, he posted a message that said: "We also don't want money from VALVe, we want a simple message on their site."
Despite making a moral standing on that occasion, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior said that the 20 year old hacker had managed to "burn 13 million Euros playing poker online and shopping for notebooks, flat screens and MP3 players." Based on that, we're guessing he wasn't as morally resolute every time he came across personal data.
In addition to the Valve incident, he is also being charged with hacking his way into an Activision server and downloading an unfinished copy of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Which, if nothing else, is not the game you want to get caught hacking for.
He must be crazy thinking hed get away with stealing13m. What he should have done was steal 10p off every account and deposit it in a swis bank. If youre quick, you can hide the money in stocks and shares from then on. Noone would be looking for it in a couple of years.
Hell probably get 10 years, about 8 of them on parole and banned from all ISPs.
10 years in holland?!? You'll have to kill 40 people for that! He'll probably get one year probation and a fine. After that 300 hours of social service.
And after that a job as a security advisor for about 80 K a year.
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