Half-Life 2 Source Code Stolen :(
Friday, October 3, 2003 by themorphium | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Found something interesting: http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?s=e6e7d0ce0abe19997425ef50fa7fe1df&threadid=10692
Orion
Reply #2 Friday, October 3, 2003 8:49 AM
Reply #2 Friday, October 3, 2003 8:49 AM
I hope they fired their administrators over this...they sure do deserve it. Stuff like that should only be on a physically isolated network. It sucks, but there's no one to blame but their admins.
A conspiracy theory would be that this was all staged so they could take another year in development.
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A conspiracy theory would be that this was all staged so they could take another year in development.
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MadIce
Reply #3 Friday, October 3, 2003 9:57 AM
Reply #3 Friday, October 3, 2003 9:57 AM
Wow. I worked for a game company for several years. If our baby was stolen, we wouldn't be as nice as Gabe.
The DJ
Reply #4 Friday, October 3, 2003 10:41 AM
Reply #4 Friday, October 3, 2003 10:41 AM
Hmmm, well it's partial source code. It's not playable; not without textures, sound files, maps, etc.. It'll be used for cheats and hacks online.
This is why Half Life 2 was delayed on September 24th; it was stolen on the 19th.
And is seems like they found the main guy:
http://halflife2.homelan.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=10781&perpage=15&pagenumber=1=6
There's someone on another forum who posted what was in it including spoilers about the game.
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This is why Half Life 2 was delayed on September 24th; it was stolen on the 19th.
And is seems like they found the main guy:
http://halflife2.homelan.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=10781&perpage=15&pagenumber=1=6
There's someone on another forum who posted what was in it including spoilers about the game.
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MadIce
Reply #5 Friday, October 3, 2003 10:23 PM
Reply #5 Friday, October 3, 2003 10:23 PM
Hmmm. The forum is currently down for maintainance.
Angel_Wings
Reply #6 Friday, October 3, 2003 10:38 PM
Reply #6 Friday, October 3, 2003 10:38 PM
The http://www.myg0t.com/ clan is busted big time but they are now doing redirect because they are pretty much exposed. They were providing the source-code download until they got wise.
I think the hackers got to the one site that was posted here by us too...
Creeps.
I think the hackers got to the one site that was posted here by us too...
Creeps.
EventHorizon
Reply #7 Saturday, October 4, 2003 12:08 AM
Reply #7 Saturday, October 4, 2003 12:08 AM
Do NOT click on the source code link in #6...
Angel_Wings
Reply #8 Saturday, October 4, 2003 12:49 AM
"Do NOT click on the source code link in"
Ditto what EH said...
Sorry 'bout that...
Reply #8 Saturday, October 4, 2003 12:49 AM
"Do NOT click on the source code link in"
Ditto what EH said...
Sorry 'bout that...
The DJ
Reply #9 Saturday, October 4, 2003 12:47 PM
Reply #9 Saturday, October 4, 2003 12:47 PM
*Update*
1) We've taken our network connection down to pretty much a minimum. We're still finding machines internally that have been compromised.
2) The suite of tools that the attacker was using included the modified version of RemotelyAnywhere (basically a Remote Desktop-style remote admin tool), Haxker Defender (a process, registry key and file hiding tool), the key logger, and various networking utilities that allowed them to transfer files (compressors, NetCat, and FTP). We also are pretty sure they were sniffing our network to gather passwords and other information. Haxker Defender includes a file system driver that allows an attacker to have stuff on your machine that is invisible, unless you do something like mount the drive under another OS that has NTFS support.
We have determined one way of detecting some infected machines, which is using a connection viewer to detect connections to anomalous hosts external to our network.
We still don't know their entry method.
3) In general, the community has been remarkably swift at tracking down the sources of the leak. What would be most helpful now are IP addresses of the people who were responsible for the intrusion or for the denial of service attacks.
4) Also, please continue to send in URLs of websites hosting the source code. We've been contacting people and asking them to take it down.
5) There's anecdotal evidence that other game developers have been targeted by whoever attacked us. This hasn't been confirmed. We've been providing other game developers with more detailed information about the exploits and evidence of infiltration.
6) We're running a little bit blind with our network shut down, but it seems like some of the press has picked up the story. I've been fielding calls from the mainstream non-games, non-technical press.all day. Hopefully they will get to report shortly what a mistake it is to pee off a whole bunch of gamers and get them hunting you around the Internet.
For any information related to this, please send it to [email protected], or you can always send to [email protected] as well.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/28641
Now, more bad news: it's possible that more than just the source code leaked, although this is just unsubstantiated rumor at this point. Do not support the distribution of any such files, do not download any of these files yourself (unless you want to expose yourself to horrible viruses and possible legal prosecution), and contact Valve immediately if you come across people or organizations circulating anything suspicious.
http://planethalflife.com/
1) We've taken our network connection down to pretty much a minimum. We're still finding machines internally that have been compromised.
2) The suite of tools that the attacker was using included the modified version of RemotelyAnywhere (basically a Remote Desktop-style remote admin tool), Haxker Defender (a process, registry key and file hiding tool), the key logger, and various networking utilities that allowed them to transfer files (compressors, NetCat, and FTP). We also are pretty sure they were sniffing our network to gather passwords and other information. Haxker Defender includes a file system driver that allows an attacker to have stuff on your machine that is invisible, unless you do something like mount the drive under another OS that has NTFS support.
We have determined one way of detecting some infected machines, which is using a connection viewer to detect connections to anomalous hosts external to our network.
We still don't know their entry method.
3) In general, the community has been remarkably swift at tracking down the sources of the leak. What would be most helpful now are IP addresses of the people who were responsible for the intrusion or for the denial of service attacks.
4) Also, please continue to send in URLs of websites hosting the source code. We've been contacting people and asking them to take it down.
5) There's anecdotal evidence that other game developers have been targeted by whoever attacked us. This hasn't been confirmed. We've been providing other game developers with more detailed information about the exploits and evidence of infiltration.
6) We're running a little bit blind with our network shut down, but it seems like some of the press has picked up the story. I've been fielding calls from the mainstream non-games, non-technical press.all day. Hopefully they will get to report shortly what a mistake it is to pee off a whole bunch of gamers and get them hunting you around the Internet.
For any information related to this, please send it to [email protected], or you can always send to [email protected] as well.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/28641
Now, more bad news: it's possible that more than just the source code leaked, although this is just unsubstantiated rumor at this point. Do not support the distribution of any such files, do not download any of these files yourself (unless you want to expose yourself to horrible viruses and possible legal prosecution), and contact Valve immediately if you come across people or organizations circulating anything suspicious.
http://planethalflife.com/
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Reply #1 Friday, October 3, 2003 8:48 AM
http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?s=9689c618fe0d3a114dae501fbd50554a&threadid=10894
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