Hackers discovered Exploit to produce money on Steam - get 6,300 €

A hacker recovered a destructive exploit recently. A simple trick was allowed to make Steam to multiply the value of money in the steam balance. He reported the exploit and conceded a comparatively small sum as a reward.

What was that for an exploit? A bug in the system of Steam software read a kind of money proliferation. Anyone who had the term Amount100 in his user name for Steam could intercept payments that were made via smart2pay on the way to the server and then blow out them. So you could easily make 100 dollars from a dollar, which then showed legitimately in the Steam balance.

So you would have to buy all sorts of games in Steam and for money laundering can be sold again. How criminals could have paralyzed the entire economic system of Valves distribution platform.

Hacker gets comparatively low reward

What was the reward of honesty? The hacker who carries the nickname DRBRIX found the exploit, but instead of using him and to enrich him, he posted the whole thing with detailed examples on the anti-hacking side Hackeron.

There you can publish Exploits and other security gaps in software and support the fight against criminal hackers and cheaters. Ironically, the exploit of DBRIX itself was classified only as a moderate, a Valve employee staged the matter but fast on the status critical high, as it was a truly harmful exploit.

Thanks to the good documentation of Drbrix you could quickly fix the thing quickly and thank you to $ 7,500 (€ 6362.89) on premium to DRBRIX.

This is a pretty sum, but quite little, considering how much money you could get through the exploits exploit. At Riot there was 2020 at Valorant even job offers for finding exploits in the game.