How hackers accidentally sold a pre-release XBox One to the FBI

Earlier this week, an indictment was unsealed outlining a long list of charges against a group of men accused of running a three-year hacking spree that stole intellectual property from gaming companies.Dylan Wheeler, 19, of Perth said in an interview Thursday he was a member of the group, and is one of two unnamed co-conspirators in the indictment. His name is redacted, but includes his online nicknames, including “SuperDae,” which is his Twitter handle.The 65-page indictment is an eye-opening document, which describes how the loose-knit group pilfered the source code for Microsoft’s XBox One, Apache helicopter simulation software designed for the U.S. Army and intellectual property from game makers such as Epic Games, Valve Corp. and Activision.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here