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A massive Valve leak just exposed 12TB of old Steam data, no hacking required

  • Alfonso Maruccia--TechSpot
  • published date: 2026-08-31 16:28:00 UTC

From September 2003 to early 2013, Valve employed a "Steam2" server architecture to manage data flowing through its PC gaming store. Now, a substantial portion of that data is being shared through the BitTorrent network after someone uploaded the content over…

A hot potato: Valve has just gone through what might be the worst weekend in recent history. The PC gaming giant was hit by a gigantic leak of private gaming data, a multi-terabyte trove containing i… [+2458 chars]