Half-Life 2 Announcement a Fake

Post by **sys** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:28 pm

It seems someone guessed Gabe Newell's password on the HL2Fallout forums and posted the fake announcement that HL2 is going gold on Monday. On the HL2Fallout front page:

"Fool's Gold
Update: After one crazy night of theories, guesswork and IP tracing, we finally gotten to the bottom of this mess. In a twist of hilarity, it seems that Gabe Newell's account password was set to 'gaben'. Person x guessed this and made the "going gold on Monday" post which we've heard so much about. The user (who we believe is the same person x) then made this post just minutes ago using Gabe's account:
Maybe he shouldn't have used 'gaben' for his password. Come on Gabe, you could of thought of something better than that

After a quick double-check, it seems that this was exactly what happened. Reminds me of the good old days.

Original Post
After a close scrutiny of Gabe Newell’s account history on the forums, we've come to the conclusion that the gold post is a fake. While we can't be 100% certain at this stage, all indicators point towards someone hacking the forum account. That said, all Gabe's previous posts on these forums are quite legitimate.

We apologize for the confusion and will be investigating further. Theoretically, an IPB forum account should be very difficult to hack. Well, that was the theory at least. We'll keep you updated. "

Oh well, I guess it's another year of waiting :: )

DaLkO · Post by **DaLkO** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 12:45 pm

Damn.

Cyfun · Post by **Cyfun** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 1:15 pm

Heh, you'd have thought he'd learned something from the leak last fall.

Volmarias · Post by **Volmarias** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:11 pm

Just what I was about to say.

Jesus. Would someone take security seriously, please? And he wonders how the leak happened.

Tasslehoff [eLa] · Post by **Tasslehoff [eLa]** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:24 pm

haha damnnnit

DaLkO · Post by **DaLkO** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:31 pm

edit: im an idiot

small_pox · Post by **small_pox** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:32 pm

No it was set to gaben.

Special-K · Post by **Special-K** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 2:43 pm

:lol:

AHAHHHHAHAHHAAHAH

This is funny. Very funny. :lol: :lol:

Disgruntled Postman · Post by **Disgruntled Postman** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:43 pm

im sure they will be like, "since gabes account got h4xx0r3d, then hl2 will be delayed till sometime next summer"

Delinquent · Post by **Delinquent** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:12 pm

Gabe is a fucking fat idiot. Period.

Too bad he holds hl2 in his hands and we don't

/.Delinquent

kaden · Post by **kaden** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:14 pm

w0w...just.....

....w0w....

Disgruntled Postman · Post by **Disgruntled Postman** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:12 pm

update on phl

We now have an official comment from VALVe's Chris Bokitch over at the Steam User Forums:
false.

Do you really think the gold announcement will be made with a 4 word forum post?
*UPDATE*

renesis · Post by **renesis** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:00 pm

Honestly, this shows how little Valve seems to care about security.

KillerFreak · Post by **KillerFreak** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:46 pm

valve isnt exactly a large company, they have their HQ in seatle and its damn firggen small.wouldnt it be ironic if like 3 of us dressd up as zombies on haloween and got in there and stole that shit for us.

Delinquent · Post by **Delinquent** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:59 pm

It's in Bellevue / Redmond Area (close to Seattle) and they have 64 employees. (5 years * 64 employees / awsome game = too fucking long still)

But yea.... ironic? no... funny? not really.... cool? if we got away with it

/.Delinquent