Steam catastrophe averted: Valve fixes serious mistakes

Apparently, a truly serious security gap has started at the Game Platform Steam. A hacker made operator Valve attentively attentively and thus saves the company a lot of trouble and, above all, money. What the mistake in the wrong hands could have served, we will tell you now.

Although they often lead evil in the shield and do harm, hackers can also be useful to showcase possible safety shortages. This is now also done at Steam. A hacker made aware of a truly serious mistake and has probably prevented worse for Valve.

Hacker comes to the help Steam

The hacker DRBRIX has described an exploit on the Hackeron page, where the user of Steam can fill their virtual purse arbitrarily up . For this you need to supplement your email address by a specific term in order to make changes to the account balance using the Smart2Pay system.

The website combines hackers with companies to uncover exactly such security gaps. In return, the notes of the helpful hackers are rewarded with a payment. In the case of Drbrix, Valve pays $ 7,500 to the helper.

A comparatively small sum in the face of the possible loss for Steam operator Valve.

Games for the spin price

What does that mean for you? Fortunately, the mistake could be discovered before a noticeable damage was created. A possible scenario in the wrong hands is also described in the Hacker Report.

With the possibility to charge the Account infinitely a lot of money, games would have bought in large quantities and can be resold, for example. This would have been able to have an impact on the entire platform **.

The result would probably have been Steam games for the incredible bargain price for the players. At first sounds good, but the loss for Valve and the developers of the games would have been catastrophic.

Valve thanked Via Daily Swig (Source: Daily SWIG) at Hacker DRBRIX and assures that its payment service provider has quickly accepted the problem and thus no customer had to hurt **.

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Valve was able to turn a large steam crisis avert thanks to a helpful hacker. Thus, the company is spared a heritage loss business and the hacker is allowed to look forward to his efforts over a $ 7,500 dollars.