Suspect Arrested for Trying to Steal Breach Code at PAX
On Sunday, Justin May, 20, of Delaware, tried to steal the game code of Atomic Games upcoming game Breach.
"The suspect did admit to us several times, including as he was doing it, that he was stealing the code," David Tractenberg, a spokesperson for Atomic, said. "He said to myself and several other team members, after being caught, that it was not a big deal, he just really liked the game and wanted to play it with his friends."
Later on, Peter Tamte, the president of Atomic Games, told Joystiq that May only copied about 14MB of code before being caught. "Because of the work we do for military and intelligence organizations, we take security issues like this very seriously," Tamte said. "It is fortunate for him that we caught him before any of this ended up on the internet. Many of the hackers who stole Valve's Half-Life 2 code were tracked down by the FBI's Cybercrime Task Force."
