Valve Hacker Caught

The guy who hacked Valve’s file server and stole credit card numbers of Steam Cyber Café users was caught by police in the Dutch town of Maastricht in the past week. According to the Dutch Ministry of the Interior, the 20 year old hacker had managed to “burn 13 million Euros playing poker online and shopping for notebooks, flat-screens and MP3 players” before he was caught.

He went by the online handle MaddoxX. “We also don’t want money from VALVe,” he wrote on the No-Steam forum last year. “We want a simple message on their site.”

MaddoxX is also charged with hacking his way into an Activision server and downloading an unfinished version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, as well as stealing 50,000 credit card numbers from an English ticketing site.