Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Tech

Huge 12TB Leak Exposes a Decade of Steam’s Game Data

We still don’t have Half-Life 3, though.

Huge 12TB Leak Exposes a Decade of Steam’s Game Data

A massive leak of approximately 12 terabytes of gaming data has exposed a decade's worth of content from Valve's gaming platform, Steam. IGN reported that the leak, containing data from Steam2, which was used to deliver updates from 2003 to 2013, suggests that all published games from this period are included. While there is no complete version of Half-Life 3, the leak does contain prototypes and early versions of several games, such as Left 4 Dead and Grand Theft Auto 5.

The data was reportedly found in a public repository, and neither hacking nor player data was involved. Valve content creators Scolcer and Gabe Follower posted about the leak, with Follower attributing it to a fault on Valve's part. Valve has not yet commented on the matter.

Written by urgent.news from CNET's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.

Read the original at cnet.com →

More in Tech

More from Monday 31 August →