as it turns out this was a prank staged by mason. there is no hacker, there is no exploit of information.

I'm afraid I agree with Alex, staging pranks of that level of seriousness really doesn't show a mature attitude, it's like someone setting off fire alarms for fun, particularly because of passed hacker troubles.

Hi,
Not too much to say because I believe that it has already been said. For your computer's safety if you have ever heard of Hot spot shield, go and check it out, it might be worth, at least as long as this hacker is around. Hot spot shield can automatically disconnect your computer from the local network as soon as somebody else joins it, with the intention of saving your computer from hacking. It can also prevent other computers from gaining access to your data. This method, in some ways, is illegal because it could change your IP address and a lot of other things along with it, but in these cases, I don't really see any sign of illegality, because I'm just saving my data from being hacked or used.
I hope you guys solve this problem soon.

Hello,
This is definitely childish behaviour, and that prank has gone too far.

I agree with you all, it was pretty childish. I'm not even sure what made me want to do it anyway. It was just spur of the moment thing. True, I probably shouldn't have done it, but what's done is done, I'm afraid. I won't do it again without warning next time, which there probably won't be one.

Erm, aren't we taking this a little far?
I mean. As far as I know, soundworks only talked with Devin. There wasn't much published publicly...I mean, if he posted something here, then sure it would've been a prank in bad taste. But I don't know. I wouldn't want to not joke with close friends in the fear of me being called childish...

What he do or say when talking to his close friends is entirely his business, but when it goes publicly to a forum like this, no, I don't think we've gone too far.
Best regards, Haramir.

Mason pulled this off and it lasted for quite a fiew hours. Speeder posted about this while it was happening, and at that point he didn't know. Accept we now have more pressing issues, it could be mason with other's pranking us, but I know mason has access to my stw source code, and this morning someone called and was freeking scrolling threw it. Someone who uh, shouldn't have it. And they said mason's dropbox was hacked, that person gave it then that, then this, then this, than he got it, etc, I don't know, but this hole hacking crap is pissing me off.

@samtypy1, Unfortunately, when it comes to hacking, I have one thing to say: deal with it. It's apart of life, and no matter what you do, no one's going to listen to you. For all the hackers care, we're just impotent little idiots who shouldn't exist. They want to get rid of us, and the way they do that is to destroy our PCs. It's a good way to destroy someone. The hacker can just take over the PC and destroy the person via that.
@ghost rider, the hackers get multiple things out of it: Enjoyment, thrill, and satisfaction. They love to destroy peoples machine for fun. They love the thrill of hacking and battling antiviruses and firewalls. Finally, they get satisfaction after the person is in tears, is crying, and is in jail for something they didn't do, yet they can't prove it because it was under their name. Hackers love this kind of thing. They love to hack people just because they can. To them, the law doesn't matter. Illegality doesn't matter. Nothing matters but the world of infinitive "idiots" as they call us. And if we're not infinitive idiots, then we're people who the hackers just love to annihilate so they can get the satisfaction and do whatever they were trying to do. All they want to do when they hack is get someone out of their way. For example, take the swamp server. People were hacking the swamp server so they could get Aprone out of the way and do whatever they wanted to do. In short, hackers think they're gods and immortals, and that they can do whatever they want, just like bullies and cyber bullies think.

I'm not to mad about my source code being stollen, I just changed the server and the encryption keys so hell if I care, most of it is useless anyway, besides the fact that now people can clone stw, but i'd notise and I think they'd fail horibly. But it's sad that mason had a log of plain text passwords in his ultrapower folder when his damn dropbox got hacked. I have ideas about who might be doing this, but I know whey love how we are so confused, about how it's wierd, I think I know that, if my suspissions are correct. I won't start anything stupid by posting anything about it here but I have my suspissions about this mess. I'm not mad though hahaha ethin. But I say hell with it, the hackers dammage has been done, and in my opinian sitting here talking about it isn't gonna get us anyware. I just recommend changing the passwords, and well, that's really all I can say for advice. I've scene that log file of mason's for a while but didn't say anything about it because it just sat there and I didn't think about it. But when mason's dropbox got hacked, I thought oh shit and was just sending people who's usernames matched the entries in the log and whare it came from just encase they had the same pass for everything. I've completely removed mason's access to both mine and his code that we shared, not because I hate mason but so the hacker can't get more out of it, and what's even more wierd is I couldn't get ahold of him at all today. Facetime, skype, everything failed horibly.

I'll admit I'm totally confused by everything that's going on, here and in the UltraPower thread.  First there's claims of a hacker getting a hold of everyone's passwords and the game's source code.  Next it's claimed to only be a joke.  It is even stated that there is no such file that contains everyone's passwords.  Now Mason is saying that it was all true.

I have absolutely no idea what is going on anymore.  Is this all a joke, was this all a joke... did it really happen and was just being covered up by the whole "joke" story?  Which way is up?!