All is not well: hacker voices38 went underground after Denuvo's attempt to sue him

Now the company is trying to force Discord, Valve, and Reddit to reveal his identity through court.

Denuvo continues its investigation against an unknown author of hacks, known by the pseudonym voices38. The company has appealed to a US federal court to allow it to obtain user data from Discord, Valve, and Reddit, which may help establish the suspect's real name.

The lawsuit began last month. Denuvo claims that voices38 was engaged in bypassing protection technology and managed to crack 26 games.

The main problem for Denuvo is that the company does not yet know who exactly is hiding behind the pseudonym. The lawsuit managed to specify the digital identifiers of the alleged infringer — a Discord account, a Reddit profile, and seven Steam accounts, but the real name of the defendant could not be established.

Now the company wants to use the weight of a court decision to obtain additional information directly from platform owners.

Denuvo had already approached Valve and Reddit with a request to provide the necessary data, but the companies refused to do so without a corresponding legal requirement. Discord, according to the case materials, did not respond to the request at all.

In the case of Valve, Denuvo expects to receive registration data for seven Steam accounts, including names and billing addresses. The company is also interested in purchase and payment history, IP addresses, connection times, device information, and associated accounts.

Some of the specified profiles are almost inactive. At the same time, Denuvo believes that they may be related to the activities of voices38. One of the accounts uses the name Enzo Favara — a character from Mafia: The Old Country, which also appears among the games allegedly cracked by the author.

From Discord, the company wants to obtain information about the servers where the suspect was located, as well as information about his roles. Reddit, in turn, may be obliged to provide posts and comments from the voices38 account and data about the communities in which he participated.

Court documents also showed that Denuvo studied not only the alleged cracker's activity on gaming and social platforms.

The company states that it discovered cryptocurrency operations related to voices38 through the FixedFloat service. These involved Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.

At the same time, Denuvo does not disclose how it managed to link these transactions to the pseudonym. It is also unknown whether they contain information that would allow identifying the person.

Interestingly, despite the discovery of a cryptocurrency trail, Denuvo has not yet asked the court to compel FixedFloat to disclose user information.

Now the court must decide whether to grant Denuvo permission to obtain the data. If the petition is granted, the company will be able to officially request information from Discord, Valve, and Reddit and try to match it with other collected evidence.

The court case already seems to have affected other participants in the Denuvo cracking scene. After the start of the proceedings, the DenuvOwO group, known for creating tools to bypass protection, ceased its activities. In addition, links to its releases were removed from one of the popular forums.

Voices38 himself, after the information about the lawsuit appeared, stated that the situation would not affect his activities. However, no new releases under this name have appeared since then.

Whether the lack of activity is directly related to the Denuvo lawsuit is unknown. Nevertheless, the company clearly intends to see the investigation through to the end and is now trying to turn a set of anonymous accounts into real data about the person behind the pseudonym voices38.