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Offline Killer360

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Steam Hacked
« on: April 20, 2007, 08:34:21 am »
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Valve's Steam service hacked, credit card information obtained

Posted Apr 19th 2007 1:20AM by Alexander Sliwinski

Valve's Steam content distribution system has apparently been hacked. The culprit allegedly got deep enough into the system to steal credit card information and financial information on Valve. DailyTech reports the hacker known as "MaddoxX" broke in and obtained:

* Screenshots of internal Valve web pages
* A portion of Valve's Cafe directory
* Error logs
* Credit card information of customers
* Financial information on Valve

MaddoxX posted the information he obtained on an anti-Steam website. He has also threatened to release a spreadsheet of the credit card information. We've contacted Valve for a statement on this alleged breach in security.

Original article here: http://www.joystiq.com/2007/04/19/valves-steam-service-hacked-credit-card-information-obtained/
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2007, 09:41:06 am »
Ha. My old card doesn't work anymore, so whatever! :P
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2007, 10:53:52 am »
Ha!  I bought my games in a store!
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2007, 02:56:55 pm »
LMFAO!! <3 MaddoxX
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2007, 08:46:46 pm »
Quote from: dlStevens on April 20, 2007, 02:56:55 pm
LMFAO!! <3 MaddoxX

Are you a Steam hater?  :P
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2007, 10:08:20 pm »
Steam sucks....
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2007, 10:11:25 pm »
I remember back when I was too poor to buy Steam, I used the version cracked by MaddoxX, and remember seeing him post a lot. IIRC, he's a gangster h4x0r. I can't seem to remember the forum, though... I remember giving him shit for stealing Maddox's name.
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2007, 10:19:58 pm »
Haha, I remember that, Metal.  He'll get arrested for being stupid and we can all get on with our lives, because we all don't trust companies with our Credit Card information, right?


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Doug Lombardi, director of marketing for Steam, tells 1UP, "There has been no security breach of Steam ... The alleged hacker gained access to a third-party site that Valve uses to manage the commercial partners in its Cyber Cafe program. This Cyber Cafe billing system is not connected to Steam. We are working with law enforcement agencies on this matter, and encourage anyone with more information to e-mail us at Catch_A_Thief [at] ValveSoftware [dot] com."
« Last Edit: April 20, 2007, 10:21:42 pm by Blaze »
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2007, 10:25:08 pm »
Lol what a noob.
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2007, 11:13:03 am »
Quote from: Metal Militia on April 20, 2007, 10:11:25 pm
I remember back when I was too poor to buy Steam, I used the version cracked by MaddoxX, and remember seeing him post a lot. IIRC, he's a gangster h4x0r. I can't seem to remember the forum, though... I remember giving him shit for stealing Maddox's name.

I remember a Maddox or MaddoxX from Battle.net, it's probably the second one isn't it?
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2007, 12:42:15 pm »
It's probably not either.  Maddox was pretty good with programming and such, but I'd still be skeptical to believe it's him.

Maddox and its derivatives are pretty common names...
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2007, 04:24:42 pm »
Yeah, I remember the Maddox I used to know ripped people off on Battle.Net, I also think he made a winbot? If I recall right.
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2007, 05:07:51 pm »
Maddox on bnet was actually pretty cool.
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2007, 07:42:35 pm »
Quote from: dlStevens on April 21, 2007, 04:24:42 pm
Yeah, I remember the Maddox I used to know ripped people off on Battle.Net, I also think he made a winbot? If I recall right.

Yep, he did make a winbot.
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Re: Steam Hacked
« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2007, 09:07:20 am »
Damn, it seems like a lot of old battle.net junkies are getting into some serious shit
This one is a conference on botnets and iNk`, mc0 and InTeL are discussed about 25 minutes into the conference.
http://www.facetime.com/newsevents/botnet_live_rsa2007/botnet_live_rsa_2007.html

EDIT: Yes, these are iNk` and mc0 from battle.net
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