Half-Life code leak could be due to the Phatbot trojan
Axel G., 21-year-old programmer from Schoneau, Germany, was arrested (on the recommendation of U.S. authorities) for having created the Phatbot trojan. He was released on bail after just one week with the stipulation that he must check in with the police regularly; he also had his passport confiscated so he can't leave the country. Phatbot is a trojan which allows one person to control a network of computers, possibly to be used in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Recent developments link the creator, who used the alias "Ago," with the leak of the Half-Life 2 source code from Valve over 7 months ago. An IRC log is available from Heise.de
