Valve Hacker Caught by Dutch Police

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man who hacked into a Valve file server and stole the credit card numbers of Steam Cyber Cafe users was caught by police in the Dutch town of Maastricht this Tuesday.

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 being caught.

Known by the online handle MaddoxX, the man first made news when he boasted of the Valve hack in April of 2007.
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Source: Shacknews

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BlueMak

What a waste of good stolen money.
Good luck in jail asshat.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
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OmegaRED

I have a hard time believing he spent nearly $20,000,000 before getting caught. Why didn't he take the money and run? A kid couldn't even spend that much money if he bought every notebook and mp3 player he could find.

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