Quake Code Stolen:  Hackers hit Crack dot Com
PC Gamer Magazine April 1997

A Computer Hacker broke into Crack dot Com's Website and stole the source
code to Quake and two Crack projects, including its upcoming strategy game,
Golgotha.  The hackers then modified the Crack website to allow visitors to
download the code directly from the web page.

The Quake code was on Crack's network because Dave Taylor, a Crack founder and former 
ID employee, is working on the Linux port of Quake.  Taylor notes that he's subsequently 
tightened security at his site, and that the people at id Software were not upset with
him.  ID experienced a similar break-in this summer, with the full version of Quake being
stolen and released onto the Internet a week before the game was released as shareware.

"They (id) sympathized with what happened to us," says Crack dot Com founder Dave Taylor.
"Crack was clearly targeted."  He also doesn't think the theft of Golgotha will affect the
game's chances of being published.  "It's too hot a title," he says.  The hacker, Taylor 
suspects, stole the code not to sell it but merely as a trophy.  "Its's the same thing
that motivates me to make games," he says.  "I'm good at it and like to show off."

After the break-in, the hackers went into the IRC Channel #quake (IRC Chat Channel) and
bragged about their crime.  Crack dot Com contacted the FBI as soon as the crime was discovered,
and the FBI's Computer Emergency Response Team is on the case.  Although the Quake code 
was stolen, id isn't overly concerned.  No other company could use the code in a commerical
product and get away with it, and by the time a rival could reverse engineer it and 
bring something similar to market, id will have moved onto its next project, code-named
"Trinity".