{"id":13862,"date":"2011-09-06T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"three-million-dirt-3-steam-codes-leaked-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13862-three-million-dirt-3-steam-codes-leaked-stolen","title":{"rendered":"Three million Dirt 3 Steam codes leaked, stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you receive a free copy of Dirt 3 lately? Somebody just sort of, like, gave you a Steam code for the game?<\/p>\n<p>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&rsquo;t know those codes were stored on a poorly secured web server. Of course, somebody, somewhere, worked that out.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5837468\/whoops-3-million-copies-of-dirt-3-just-went-missing\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Kotaku\">Kotaku<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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&rsquo;ve yet to make an official statement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17354-Three-million-Dirt-3-Steam-codes-stolen-and-set-free-on-the-internet\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Three million Dirt 3 Steam codes leaked, stolen\">Three million Dirt 3 Steam codes leaked, stolen<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codemasters executes atomic facepalm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}