Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info

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Hacker Releases 1.7TB Treasure Trove of Gaming Info

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 10, 2013 @05:00AM from the take-a-look dept.

mvar writes "According to Kotaku, a hacker named SuperDaeE who breached multiple gaming companies (Valve, Sony, MS to name a few) has released a 1.7TB treasure trove file for download. The file which contains source code for older titles plus development kits for the PS4 and Xbox One consoles, is encrypted and SuperDaeE claims that it is his insurance in case he gets arrested."

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Insurance Policy? by Orestesx · 2013-06-10 05:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

Right...cause if he gets in trouble, blackmail will surely get him out of it.
1. Re:Insurance Policy? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-10 05:24 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "Listen up, world! I've got evidence that the senator's been holding a human trafficking and slavery ring in the #7 warehouse on the docks, as well as papers showing the exact schedules of these activities and how they've helped his campaigns! And here's all of that evidence for download! I'm using this as insurance against him arresting me for my breaking and entering into his office to get this information!"
  "So... how is this insurance?"
  "Because if he tries to arrest me, I'll release all the information to the world!"
  "But you just did that."
  "Of course I did! That way he knows I'm not bluffing! If he tries something stupid, I'll release it all again! So you see, Senator, I hold all the cards!"
2. Re:Insurance Policy? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-10 05:32 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Just for reference, if you look at the summary you'll see that what he's released is that trove... encrypted. The idea is that if he gets arrested, he yells out the passphrase, but until then this might as well be 1.7TiB of /dev/random
3. Re:Insurance Policy? by spiffmastercow · 2013-06-10 05:44 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Just for reference, if you look at the summary you'll see that what he's released is that trove... encrypted. The idea is that if he gets arrested, he yells out the passphrase, but until then this might as well be 1.7TiB of /dev/random
  My guess is it's 1.7GB of /dev/random anyway.
4. Re:Insurance Policy? by tattood · 2013-06-10 06:13 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Sure, the game companies may not want this released, but does the FBI care? If they investigate, and find and arrest the hacker, it's up to the D.A. whether or not to prosecute, not the game companies. This seems like a worthless insurance policy/blackmail, because the people going after him are unaffected by the action of him releasing the encryption key.
  
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5. Re:Insurance Policy? by firex726 · 2013-06-10 06:15 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Sure, but Dev kits are also much more open than a release console. They need to be to let the Dev run unsigned code of their own while it's being made; any exploits you may find in this code may not be usable in the final product; especially since the consoles are possibly still being made.
6. Re:Insurance Policy? by nedlohs · 2013-06-10 06:16 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Because yelling a passphrase is easier than yelling out 1.7TB of data on the spot?
7. Re:Insurance Policy? by Minwee · 2013-06-10 06:19 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Because yelling a passphrase is easier than yelling out 1.7TB of data on the spot?
  They're trashing our rights, man! They're trashing the flow of data! Hack the planet!
8. Re:Insurance Policy? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-10 06:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  He has a Beowulf cluster of geiger counters!
9. Re:Insurance Policy? by MMC+Monster · 2013-06-10 06:54 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Or his personal porn collection.
  Why back it up if you can get the world to do it?
  
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10. Re:Insurance Policy? by DrXym · 2013-06-10 06:57 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Safe how? It sounds like he is being charged for possession of kiddy porn among other things. He'll be tried and convicted regardless of his "threat" (which in itself is a offence) and if he's fucking stupid enough to release the key he can expect to receive fresh charges on top since he has just incriminated himself. So he'll probably go from 3-5 years up to 10+ years. Doubtless all sentencing to be served consecutively. Great plan that.
11. Re:Insurance Policy? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-10 07:23 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It's 1.7 GB of /dev/random. All he needs to do is release the correct one-time pad!
12. Re:Insurance Policy? by hairyfeet · 2013-06-10 09:35 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  What? Who in the fuck is soooo damned retarded they will download 1.7 fricking TB of data that is completely fucking useless because its encrypted? Hell how in the fuck do you know this isn't just his way of railing against the possession laws by seeing how many dumb fucks he can get to download child pron huh?
  You have NO idea, ZERO, what the fuck is in this stuff, you only have the word of one single person who is already an admitted criminal who has broken into countless companies, caused who knows how many people to have to deal with the "fun"of having to replace their credit cards, and we are just supposed to take his word for it? There is stupid and then there is plain old ignorant, and if you download 1.7Tb without even knowing WTF it is you are firmly in the latter column.
  
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Unintended Consequences by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-10 05:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

Now hackers everywhere have a reason to get SuperDaeE arrested.
FTP? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-10 05:04 · Score: 5, Insightful

> using centralized resource to distribute "insurance"
>> 2013
OMG by lesincompetent · 2013-06-10 05:06 · Score: 3, Interesting

Valve too?
Please SuperDaeE tell me: can they count to three?
Too large to be useful... by Darkness404 · 2013-06-10 05:07 · Score: 3, Insightful

This sounds like too large of an "insurance" to be useful. Most people don't have the bandwidth or the space to hold 1.7 TB of encrypted info. Smaller files might make sense but not huge ones like this.

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1. Re:Too large to be useful... by VorpalRodent · 2013-06-10 05:13 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  And even if they did...what's the value? Please explain to me if I'm missing something, but if I can't decrypt it, then my having a copy is just to protect his "insurance policy", in which case I'm aiding and abetting. I assume additional risk with zero potential benefit, except perhaps helping "stick it to the corporate blah blah blah"?
  
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2. Re:Too large to be useful... by rodrigoandrade · 2013-06-10 06:06 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I bet he's too young to have ever used alt.binaries to know how it's done.
I am a 1337 hax0r by Spy+Handler · 2013-06-10 05:08 · Score: 5, Funny

I have 2.0 GB of source code for Windows 8, Windows 9 alpha, Call of Duty Ghosts, World of Warcraft Annihilation and Donkey Kong Junior. I have encrypted the file and am withholding the key in case I get arrested. But trust me, it's all there.
1. Re:I am a 1337 hax0r by jellomizer · 2013-06-10 05:32 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You needed Donkey Kong Junior just to make you hit 2.0 Gigabytes exactly. Right?
  
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2. Re:I am a 1337 hax0r by oztiks · 2013-06-10 10:47 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I have 2.0 GB of source code for Windows 8, Windows 9 alpha
  Please, if you're going to steal something you should check to make sure it's of real value to someone first. Donkey Kong Junior is perhaps the biggest ticket item you've mentioned!
Encrypted blob by SirGarlon · 2013-06-10 05:11 · Score: 4, Insightful

I totally believe it's possible to exfiltrate data from multiple game companies (or indeed any companies). But how do we know he didn't just upload a 1.7 TB encrypted blob of random garbage? The word of a 17-year-old script kiddie is not exactly a lot to go on.

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1. Re:Encrypted blob by CastrTroy · 2013-06-10 05:19 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  And it seems odd that there would be so much data. Source code doesn't take that much space, and neither do development kits. Perhaps he's including game assets like textures and cut scenes from the games, but I don't really see much point in including that, since it would mostly be easy to extract from the actual game files themselves.
  
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2. Re:Encrypted blob by loufoque · 2013-06-10 06:14 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  The xbox 360 base SDK is 2GB. If you count all extra stuff for Kinect etc. it's even bigger.
  And they probably have tons of other middleware software, some of which could come with their own editing and authoring tools. That alone could account for a hundred gigs if not more.
  Then there is source code. It's not unusal for a piece of software to have sources that account for 500MB, and several gigabytes if you include binaries.
  All in all they probably also have binary assets of some sort, but software does take quite some space on a disk.
Re:Do it like Snowden by PRMan · 2013-06-10 05:36 · Score: 4, Insightful

"China: Bastion of civil rights." Has kind of a funny ring to it...

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Re:Fucking idiot by ae1294 · 2013-06-10 05:42 · Score: 4, Informative

I never user products from companies who feed customer data to the NSA. Are you listening, Google?
So how are you posting this again? Every Internet company is feeding data to the NSA sooooo?
He's obviously not Canadian by Kinwolf · 2013-06-10 05:43 · Score: 5, Funny

At least we know this hacker isn't Canadian. With our current ISP plans, it would have taken 1.5 years to upload 1.7TB of data without busting the bank in extra fees for bandwith.
Honest and for true? by Hartree · 2013-06-10 05:49 · Score: 4, Funny

I've released a file which contains the complete plans for the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator which can blow up the earth.
The file is encrypted, and if the local parking meter attendants put anymore tickets on my suburban, I'll release the passphrase.
I really, really will!
That is all.
1. Re:Honest and for true? by sconeu · 2013-06-10 06:04 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I cracked your encryption, and built it. Then I tried it out.
  To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. Where was the KABOOM? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering KABOOM!!!
  
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Re:So not only a hacker... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-06-10 06:19 · Score: 5, Insightful

He's a minor himself. The "child pornography" could be pictures of his own dick for all we know, or a 17 year old girlfriend. The "drug" charges are "posession of cannabis and cannabis paraphernalia" so who gives a shit and the "weapons" charge was supposedly a stun gun. Not a taser, just one of those sparky things.
Upgrade my cell to solitary, please.... by TiggertheMad · 2013-06-10 09:50 · Score: 4, Insightful

More to the point, unless the 1.7TB contains something of interest in the first place (ex: stolen source code that isn't encrypted), who is going to bother to download it? See, you have to give people an incentive to download that much shit before they are going to act as your own personal distributed storage service.

Bet when he gets arrested (not if), that there aren't any copies of his 'get out of jail card' in the wild.

Also, just for the record, have there ever been instances of anyone successfully blackmailing the cops into letting them go? Ever?

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1. Re:Upgrade my cell to solitary, please.... by kkwst2 · 2013-06-10 15:31 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Actually I disagree. All you have to do is convince people there is a good chance it contains something of interest. That it is encrypted might entice people to download it in the hopes of discovering the key or decrypting it. I'll take your bet. I'll bet you a 2 TB hard drive.
  I'm also willing to bet someone has blackmailed authorities into letting them go. I'm also willing to bet that said authorities did not announce that they were letting the accused go because he had some really juicy dirt on them.