Jul 1 2008Valve Hacker Blows $20 Million With Stolen Credit Cards, Is Not The Brightest Criminal
A 20-year old hacker that goes by MaddoxX (not the best page in the universe guy) busted up in a third party Valve server and stole the credit card info of Steam Cyber Cafe users. Then he proceeded to "burn 13 million Euros playing poker online and shopping for notebooks, flat screens and MP3 players". Holy crap, this kid is either the worst poker player in the world or painted the walls of his apartment with flatscreens. And still, that'd have to be a huge freaking apartment. But then MaddoxX got real stupid about the whole thing and boasted about the hack in April of 2007 and posting a bunch of stuff about the feat, that led to his recent arrest.
MaddoxX then posted an archived file that included unverified credit card numbers, transaction amounts, Valve's supposed bank balance, and data that reportedly allowed the creation of counterfeit cyber cafe certificates.In addition to the Valve caper, MaddoxX is being charged with hacking his way into an Activision server and subsequently downloading an unfinished version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. MaddoxX also stole 50,000 credit card numbers from an English ticketing website.
You just had to have that Quake Wars before everybody else, didn't you MaddoxX? Tssk, tssk. Seriously though, stealing from other gamers? That's just wrong. Robin Hood, MaddoxX, Robin Hood. It's "steal from the rich and give to the poor", not, "steal from the gamer and give to the Amazon". You greedy bastard.
Valve Hacker Caught by Dutch Police [shacknews]
Thanks Peter, now lets take turn sucker punching this guy in the nads.
Reader Comments
1. TC - July 1, 2008 12:13 PM
First post ftw muhahahaha! How do you have the smarts to hack into shit like that but not have the brains to use it properly? It's kinda like breaking into a ferrari, starting it, but not driving it...
2. Dan - July 1, 2008 1:04 PM
second? if someone don't cockblock it then THIRD!!!!
3. guate6 - July 1, 2008 1:13 PM
That's a blatant violation of the gamers code. You don't do wrong to other gamers. Same with street racers: we all take care of our kind. What a bastard...I guess after he pays fines and what not, might be hired by the armed forces to hack into "enemy" systems. We'll see.
FRIST
4. Brian - July 1, 2008 1:27 PM
The Geekologist told us about this guy's idiotic spending tendancies, and his bragging about it, but never said if the moron at the keyboard was ever caught...
Was he?
5. guate6 - July 1, 2008 2:49 PM
#4: I think that goes without saying. If what happened is already on the interwebs, then more than likely, he was caught.
6. NeoteriX - July 1, 2008 2:51 PM
Guate6,
Do you also live your life "a quarter mile at a time?" You must be one mean badass.
ps - re: "gamers code", uh, no, it's a blatant violation of the gamers' code, it's a blatant violation of the law. You don't need a lameass "code" for that, because gaming is legal and doesn't hurt anyone else. Street racing on the other hand, is neither of those. (See "Nick Bollea", Hulk Hogan's son, and "John Graziano")
7. SmokingGirl - July 1, 2008 3:17 PM
Is the gamers code the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy?
I didn't even know gamers had a code.
8. Brian - July 1, 2008 4:21 PM
Wouldn't C# be the gamer's code? (Ba-dum Kshhhhh...)
9. Joey - July 1, 2008 8:19 PM
Maybe it's the hackers code. LOVED that movie, BTW. :)
10. c45j - July 1, 2008 8:38 PM
wow. i remember this stuff happening, and was wondering why he didnt get arrested. took them long enough.
11. b - July 1, 2008 8:42 PM
pics of the douche:
http://fotoboek.fok.nl/user/MaddoxX
12. Sam - July 2, 2008 9:19 AM
Fail.
13. Faith - July 7, 2008 4:03 AM
I cant believe somebody besides me actually knows who the "best page in the universe" guy is!!!
how completely random!
and @4
"But then MaddoxX got real stupid about the whole thing and boasted about the hack in April of 2007 and posting a bunch of stuff about the feat, that led to his recent arrest"
Lay off the Geekologie Writer and learn how to freaking read!
14. bull shit - July 9, 2008 12:32 PM
this is a bull shit itz made buy some sad twat