In een reactie op de recente berichten heeft Gabe Newell een statement uitgebracht. In het kort: De source code is echt gelekt na een doelbewuste hack.
Gabe laat weten dat Valve al geruime tijd het doelwit is van verschillende hackpogingen. Zijn mailaccount is gekraakt; machines deden raar en zijn HL2 source tree is gekopieerd. Daarnaast is het iemand gelukt key-loggers te installeren op werkstations van Valve medewerkers en is het bedrijf regelmatig aangevallen met Denial-of-Service aanvallen.
De volledige statement :Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.
Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.
Here is what we know:
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was acce ing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Well, this sucks.
What I'd appreciate is the a istance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email addre for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.
We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.
GabeHet lijkt er op dat Valve het slachtoffer is geworden van een doelbewuste aanval om het bedrijf te schaden en Half-Life 2 te stelen. Dit laatste is nu gelukt en Valve vraagt de community om hulp. Iedereen die enige informatie heeft over de aanvallen of informatie heeft over de verspreider van de source wordt gevraagd te mailen naar helpvalve@valvesoftware.com . Dus als je wat weet, mail en help Valve !
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