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Half Life 2 Code Stolen, Details

5th October 2003, 8:23pm
You probably have heard by now that the source code for Valve's Half life 2 has been stolen. It's said that without the images and sound the code is useless but the whole incident has the shocked the company and the whole of the gaming world. The story as to how they were stolen is mostly speculation, but here is an insight.

Valve's Managing Director, Gabe Newell, said the company suspects that around Sept. 11, someone hacked his e-mail account. His PC then began "acting weird," crashing when he would right-click on executables. Newell, who started Valve after leaving Microsoft, believes keystroke recorders for collecting passwords were installed remotely. He believes this happened through a hole in Microsoft's Outlook personal-information management application.

Newell has asked that if anyone has information regarding to the theft, to please contact the company by means of e-mail to helpvalve@valvesoftware.com
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by Benjamin Murphy