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June 11, 2004

Half-Life 2 Arrests

The 2003 theft of part of the Half-Life 2 source code has been blamed for delaying the game’s release, and has prompted a vigorous investigation by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.

The current theory was that hackers somehow planted a key tracker on the computer of Gabe Newell, chief executive of Valve, and were able to swipe the right server passwords to snag the code.

Now we hear that several arrests have been made in the case. No details on who or how many people have been clipped, but this may have some connection to a January raid that seized computers from a San Francisco man connected to a well-known hacker group.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3797167.stm

Posted by gamegal at June 11, 2004 04:07 PM