A Delaware college student accused of hacking into a video spy game unveiled in Boston over the weekend skipped his day in court and now has a warrant out for his arrest.
Justin D. May, 20, was due to be arraigned yesterday in Boston Municipal Court on charges of larceny and receiving a stolen trade secret, but was a no-show. He's been free on $200 cash bail since his arrest Sunday.
May told police he's a student at Delaware Technical and Community College. His family yesterday said they were not aware he had been arrested.
May is accused of swooping in on the release of a new game rolled out in the Hub.
The appropriately titled "Breach" was created by Atomic Games for Xbox 360. It allows multiple players to assume the roles of CIA agents "fighting against an opposition," Atomic Games spokesman David Tractenberg said.
"Breach" was relased this past weekend at the sold-out PAX East video gamer exhibition at the Hynes Convention Center.
"This was the first chance the general public had to play the game," Tractenberg said. "It's fun. It combines a lot of technologies. It's a very big deal to us."
The application for a criminal complaint against May places the value of "Breach" at more than $6 million, though Tractenberg stressed, "We haven't figured out the real pricetag yet."
Tractenberg said May was only about two minutes into the alleged download on his computer when he was caught. May, he said, only captured "a fraction" of the game's code. "We don't know what his motive was. A couple of people had noticed him casing our area.
"As soon as we confronted him, he took off into the crowd," Tractenberg added.
North Carolina-based Atomic Games, which Tractenberg said shares a president with Destineer computer games of Minnesota, also develops simulated "small unit hostile environment tactics" for the U.S. military.
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