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The hacker is found.
Source: tweakers.net
Een Nederlandse hacker die inbrak in computersystemen van een Griekse gamestudio en van een aantal Amerikaanse bedrijven, is veroordeeld tot vier maanden gevangenisstraf. Tevens is hem een werkstraf van vijftig uur opgelegd.
De 22-jarige Peter de R. uit Beusichem werd in april opgepakt en bekende onder meer in de mailboxen van de Griekse gamesontwikkelaar Aventurine te hebben rondgeneusd. Hij wist een ontwikkelversie van het nog te verschijnen spel Darkfall Online van de servers van het bedrijf te plukken, waarbij hij dankbaar gebruikmaakte van een lek in een php-script op de Aventurine-server. Dat leidde hem vervolgens naar bestanden met inlognamen en wachtwoorden voor toegang tot de testversie van het spel. Ook van de andere systemen waar de man binnendrong zou de beveiliging zwak zijn geweest, wat volgens de rechter evenwel geen excuus was voor de actie. Van spelontwikkelaar Zenimax en beveiligingsbedrijf Inca Internet wist de man code te ontfutselen. Deze bedrijven hebben schadeclaims ingediend. De toekenning daarvan wordt echter vermoedelijk in een aparte, civiele, procedure behandeld.
De verdediging zou weinig tegen de zaak in hebben kunnen brengen, onder meer omdat De R. nagenoeg alle feiten had bekend.
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Translation: A Dutch hacker who broke into the computersystems of a Greek gamestudio and a number of American companies, has been sentenced to 4 months imprisonment. Also, a 50 hour task sentence was imposed upon him.
The 22-year old Peter de R from Beusichem was arrested in April and confessed that one of the things he did was nosing around in the mailboxes of Greek gamesdesigner Aventurine. From their servers, where he gratefully used a leak in the php-script, he apprehended a development version of the yet to be released game Darkfall Online. That lead him to files with log-in names and passwords for access to the testversion of the game. The security of the other systems which he broke into, was also supposedly weak but that, according to the judge, was no reason to commit said actions. From gamesdeveloper Zenimax and securitycompany Inca Internet, the man also was able to apprehend code. These companies have issued damage claims. Whether these issues will be granted, will likely be determined in a seperate, civil procedure. De defence supposedly had little to bring into the matter, because De R has confessed being responsible for nearly all accusations
Found it on the Darkfall forums 
Edit: http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/47254/aventurine
Aventurine claims for for 15000€ damage.
Comments
Hopefully his one phone call will be to MMORPG.com....
"MMORPG.com, this is Peter. I'm in jail, but I managed to see this before I left. Darkfall IS in development, no need to worry. Ok, goodbye."
Maybe then we could all stop holding our breath? hehe
- Farseen
Current Game: Panzar
Kinda thought the same thing, he should report about the state of the game.
Had he lived in the USA and gotten cought here, his prison sentence would be MUCH MUCH longer. The US has no tolerance for Hackers/Cyber Terrorists.
- - "What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about?" - -
Now that I think about it...
Rather bad news that some 22-year old dude can hack into the game that easily ^_^
I mean, if Aventurine can't even barely secure their game in this really closed state...well...
@Peter:
Post screenshots please!!
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Its funny how people who hate Darkfall spend so much time talking about Darkfall.
I guess being a fat troll means having no friends, no girls, and nothing better to do than spew hate on internet forums..
Ah yes... Age does matter when it comes to hacking!
4 months?? That is so ridiculous. If that is the standard sentence it's time to move to the netherlands for anyone that wants little risk for potentially big rewards.
Well you can smoke Marijuana legally in the Netherlands, too...
They're rather...liberal in their Laws ^_^
Think of it this way, they learned how important security is at an early point in their companies history and can improve it going forward.
Too bad he got caught though....maybe he would have put up a playable demo
(just kidding...hackers are vermin....and should be dealt with as such)
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Well you can smoke Marijuana legally in the Netherlands, too...
They're rather...liberal in their Laws ^_^
http://www.influks.com/post1460.html
2 liberal 4 Fox News it seems
well he must have been so frustrated after finding this:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
printf("Hello World
");
return 0;
}
that he went and turned himself to the police.
but there is a game. everyone here might know that if they would read more then the mmorpg.com forums.
Funny thing is , i nvr got to play the game
Finally, proof darkfall exists, he wouldn't of got a conviction if he stole nothing
/emote Hatersarespeechless
Some guy hacking their crap does not prove that there is any sort of actual game.
meh what ever you say it comes down ot this im getting in beta your not have fun with WoW
Some guy hacking their crap does not prove that there is any sort of actual game.
Even though the court heard that the guy stole a working pre-beta version of the game and used a user and password to log into it illegally?
Sounds like a game to me
Do you guys think of these tired "Go back to WoW" replies by yourselves, or does it require a team effort to come up with the proper number of synaptic responses? At least now we know if it ever does release (yeah, right) they'll have to rate Darkfall "E for everyone" just to make sure it's not over your maturity levels.
your boring me go away and how old are you, you are way older than me and yoru trying to proove somethign that cant be prooven to mmorpg fans for a game like this this game is a god mmo pretty pathitic if you ask me all well why do i even bother i warned you but people dont listen your lose on a beta invite for you
The security for this game is completely destroyed and needs reworking BIG DEAL no need to cry about it go get a life outside the fantasy work you live in.
i gotta admit that was funny.but there is a game. everyone here might know that if they would read more then the mmorpg.com forums.
I prefer "Game over!" better than "Hello World"
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