Conflicting reports estimate that three million, or perhaps 250,000, game codes have been stolen
UK studio Codemasters is investigating reports that an online database of Dirt 3 Steam game codes has been raided.
Various reports suggest that as many as three million Dirt 3 game codes – all of which unlock free versions of the game on Steam – have been illicitly copied by an anonymous hacker.
But how many Dirt 3 codes have gone missing, if any, is a matter of speculation. A Kotaku report, which ran with the headline that three million had been taken, clarifies at the bottom of the article that 250,000 missing codes could be a more accurate figure.
The codes are believed to be tied to a promotional campaign by chipmaker AMD. Companies that buy AMD tech would, it is believed, also receive a free copy of Dirt 3. That would suggest that three million codes is an unrealistic estimation.
Codemasters is preparing a statement on the matter, and has told Develop that it is investigating the issue.
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In June, the sensitive personal information from ‘thousands’ of Codemasters customers had been compromised in a network attack.
Three million is an accurate estimate, there were many large text files containing keys in the folder, all compromised by a few moments of phuskering.
Funny how they call it theft when they were stupid enough to leave the keys pubically viewable on there web server. There is no theft here just stupidty.
