Monday, October 6, 2003

Source code for Half-Life 2 stolen

The source code for Half-Life 2 was stolen and released over the Internet, developer Valve said Thursday. Valve Managing Director Gabe Newell said the company suspects that around Sept. 11, someone hacked his email account. His PC then began acting weird, crashing when he would right-click on executables. Wired Magazine reports that Newell believes keystroke recorders for collecting passwords were installed remotely. He believes this happened through a hole in Microsoft’s Outlook personal-information management application.

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