HL2 source code leaked

[Agent]

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...86&threshold=0

Oh dear....

[Stylez]

If it is then they are stupid, they know how many hackers currently hack on half-life this will make it worse. I expect they are going to get a bollocking from soon to becustomers, if there are cheats out before the game comes out.

[Bindibadgi]

f**king woo.

That's CS on hl2 im not gonna play then

Seen it on some torrent sites today.

[RoGuE|SaBeR]

There are some serious idiots on this planet.

Why would you want to disable Vavle!?! Creating potentially the greatest game to date and you wanna sabotage it!

[streetster]

hmm... do you think it was done because people wanted to play hl2, or people wanted to ruin it for everyone else? i'm hoping the former, as hl2 looks like its going to be an amazing game... but who knows...

also has anyone sucessfully compiled the source to make anything useful from it? or is it just a bunch of c++ files with no 'end-user' (ie non-developer/hacker/call them what you will) use?

mark

[DaBeeeenster]

What a mess. I wonder if it was an inside job or an external hacker? Probably the former I am guessing atm...

What a great shame.

[DaBeeeenster]

From Gabe @ Valve:

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 accessing 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 assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address 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.

Gabe

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/28619

[Jonny M]

I can't personally believe that the full source code was kept on a machine left open to the internet. But anyway, I'm sure we will know soon.

[ReDOcToBeR]

I Read the full story of this and tbh I can't believe that a software company like Valve havn't got decent secuity measures in place.
How come companies like Norton would have a cop at the door of a hacker within day's if they tried to hack them but Valve seem to have relativly little defence against hackers.

Seems very odd to me but there again I am a cynic

[Private Pyle]

Maybe someone wanted too play the game on the release date.


I cant believe a company full of tech heads like valve would do such obviously flawed things such as use the outlook preview pane, thats just asking for dodgy code too be sneaked in.

[Ferral]

Its pretty odd really. Thing that comes to mind here is that Sony released the mod chip info for the PS1 apparently, and look where that got the console. Wonder if it may be something similar with the HL2 source code ??

[Trash Man]

I really can not belive that this has happened I was so looking forward to playing CS2 and know that there were going to be a lot less cheats about.

It does not matter whether the code was stolen originaly so that someone could play the game early, now that it's out and near enough anyone who knows what there at can get it, it will ruin any online mod that ever uses the HL2 engine

[P4boy]

Suxs for gamers

Probably no Halflife 2 this year now cause of this.

If it hadnt been leaked we'd all be playing it now

[Ravens Nest]

(Conspiracy theory alert!)
Perhaps it's good scape goat for them, as everyone was told it would be released this year, and now there telling us it wont be released till next year because they had the source code stolen.

Just seems a little too convenient, especially since it seemed before the leak they kept delaying it anyway and the last date was november but then i could be wrong.

[Ferral]

Its now showing on Play as 28/11 and Doom 3 is showing as around there also. This remains to be seen of course !