DISCUSS! - Maddoxx finally busted

[FSOwner]

A 20 year old hacker was arrested on Tuesday evening in the Dutch town of Maastricht, after the youngster had previously hacked himself into game developers Activision and Valve. The evildoer is being charged and questioned for downloading Activision's video game Enemy Territory: Quake War whilst it was still in development. Leaking the game would've led to estimated damages of 25 million US Dollars. Apart from hacking Activision, the hacker also broke into a third-party site used by Valve to handle the Cyber Cafй business partner program, which is part of the game distribution network Steam.

The man from a country Austin Power's dad doesn't like distributed photos of his Valve hack as proof, using the very nerdy pseudonym MaddoxX. As if illegally entering the virtual premises of two game developers weren't enough, Mr. MaddoxX is also being charged with stealing credit card data of 50.000 customers from an English tickets site. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the hacker managed to burn 13 million Euros playing poker online and shopping for notebooks, flat screens and MP3 players.

A crime unit of the Dutch police called Team High Tech Crime (THTC) was responsible for the bust. The THTC was founded to police networks and communication systems in the Netherlands and tackle crimes using or directed against information and communication technolgy. The THTC is located in the Dutch town of Driebergen. There's more coverage here. X

 

[Renegade89]

MaddoxX. who else?

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translat...bij_gamefabrikant&lp=nl_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

It's in Dutch > English


I'm sure some people remember he hacked our forum way back in the days.

 

[FSOwner]

English > Free translation plz.

 

[Vasuki]

Well he is fucked... lol...

 

[WorldWarIII]

I'm glad he finally got busted for that shit

 

[.ISO]

-Snip-
Sorry, i had to snip what i said earlier. My bad.

 

[Reflector]

What's there to discuss? He didn't hide his trail (or if he did, not very well) and he got caught. The thousands of people that had their CC misused are probably screaming with joy.

 

[rushil01]

The man from a country Austin Power's dad doesn't like

hahahha

 

[tarantino]

glad? kid ruined his life

or

going to get recruited by kgb.

 

[FSOwner]

In soviet Russia You hire KGB.

Tbh.

 

[Andy1]

Pffff he was an irgnorant idiot and deserved what he got!

 

[EriX920]

Thats what happens when your too smart..

 

[.ISO]

Isn't maddoxx also PROViSION?

 

[FSOwner]

Yes he is the head of them.

 

[Andy1]

Provision is down for a long time and a noob registred with his name here

http://freesteam.org/forums/tags.php?tag=maddoxx

 

[FSOwner]

nope that's a tag search, look above the quick reply box to see how that got here.

 

[.ISO]

lol andy phailed

 

[Andy1]

*ouch* Epic Fail

 

[natbornkiller]

 

[Renegade89]

I hope valve doesn't see that.

 

[Vasuki]

Interesting screenshots... are they new or are they those old ones that were going around like.. several months ago

 

[FSOwner]

old ones.

 

[Ray]

They are all old. But I never saw the first two screenshots.
Would be interesting to hear in future about Maddoxx .

 

[rushil01]

lol probably be on the news about prisoners getting raped in the showers. I can't imagine he would really be able to defend himself

 

[FSOwner]

He probably won't even get a heavy sentence in the Netherlands being as downloading for personal use is legal.

 

[Krzywy]

He was in DETONATiON as i heard. That's why he was busted.

 

[Vasuki]

DETONATiON???

 

[.ISO]

Madoxxx was in alot of hacking groups, he founded PROViSION, a major character in DEONATiON, and i also believe he was part of REVOLUTiON

 

[FSOwner]

det basically = pvn so yeah.

 

[Ray]

DEONATiON = was a release group for Warze ( specially games )