Bad luck for Atomic Games last weekend at the PAX East show: during the last day of the event, one of the attendees of the event apparently stole the game’s codes to Breach. After downloading the code, the thief stealthily made his way out by getting lost in the crowd. Fortunately, watchful members of the studio managed to spot and catch him. The suspect’s computer was confiscated and the codes were quickly found.

David Tractenberg who is the spokesman for Atomic Games commented on the incident. He said that the thief did not try to deny that he tried to steal and get away with the game’s codes. However, he did claim that it “wasn’t a big deal” and explained that he only wanted to play the game with his buddies.

According to Atomic president Peter Tamte, the thief only managed to download about 14 MB of the game codes to his laptop before he was spotted by the staff. Atomic Games is not just your average game studio, the company actually does some work for intelligence groups and the military. This is why Tamte and his team take data theft very seriously. Tamte also says that he is glad they caught the thief before the stolen game was transferred to the Web.

One might remember that this is not the first time some hackers tried stealing game codes. Valve’s Half-Life 2 was also pirated by hackers online. Fortunately, FBI Cybercrime Task Force caught the suspects in time.

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