{"id":126018,"date":"2022-08-15T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=126018"},"modified":"2022-08-15T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T09:18:46","slug":"1-6-million-worth-of-csgo-skins-stolen-by-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/126018-1-6-million-worth-of-csgo-skins-stolen-by-hackers","title":{"rendered":"$1.6 million worth of CS:GO skins stolen by hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have reportedly stolen $1.6 million worth of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive from the trading site CSMoney.<\/p>\n<p>CS:GO is well known to boast one of the largest and most lucrative skin trading markets on Steam and is supported by Valve &#8211; thus, this theft is cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p>Among the skins traded are some whose value can exceed $20,000.<\/p>\n<p>Given these values, the presence of hackers should come as no surprise, and currently, over 30 known accounts are linked to hackers, with many more yet to be found.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by a CS:GO skin collector called Arrow on Twitter, this is the largest website hack they&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Well over $1,600,000 was just STOLEN from CSmoney<br \/>\n-We have found 30+ accounts that are linked to the hackers (there are more we haven&#8217;t found)<br \/>\n-I suspect that that the hackers sent skins to high tier traders as a distraction<br \/>\n-This is the largest website hack we&#8217;ve ever seen <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gzDKkKY0q2\">pic.twitter.com\/gzDKkKY0q2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arrow CSGO (@ArrrowCSGO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArrrowCSGO\/status\/1558379639252217856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The hack is currently being investigated, and the CSMoney site has announced it&#8217;ll be temporarily unavailable as the developers fix the issue and restore the site to normal.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what actions Valve will take in the face of this massive hack.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/126015-ps5-possibly-getting-native-disney-plus-and-spotify-apps\">PS5 possibly getting native Disney Plus and Spotify apps<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$1.6 million worth of CS:GO skins have reportedly been stolen by hackers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":86544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[6385,197,16755],"class_list":["post-126018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-csgo","tag-hack","tag-skins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}