Security researcher scoops $25,000 reward for discovering Steam 'free games' exploit

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Exploit could have been use to generate free game keys by the thousand

Valve Software, the company behind the popular Steam PC gaming portal, has paid a $25,000 bug bounty to a hacker who discovered an exploit that enabled users to generate product keys without paying...

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