Did you receive a free copy of Dirt 3 lately? Somebody just sort of, like, gave you a Steam code for the game?
You might have been aware of the fact that Codemasters and AMD have been running a promotion recently, bundling Dirt 3 Steam codes with new graphics cards, but you probably didn’t know those codes were stored on a poorly secured web server. Of course, somebody, somewhere, worked that out.
According to Kotaku, it was a payload of three million (THREE MILLION!) codes for the game, which has now been passed around and about the whole internet for everybody to help themselves to a freebie.
Presumably Valve has its own copy of the list, and should be able to blacklist the keys, or perhaps even ban offending accounts altogether, although they’ve yet to make an official statement on the matter.
Interestingly enough, responding to a reader comment under the article, writer Luke Plunkett confirms that contacting Steam and asking them to remove the game from your account works too. So maybe do that, huh?
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