Bugs will be found free to download any games on Steam

It became clear that there was a bug that makes it possible to download every game for free without limitation on " Steam " platform of downloading and selling PC games. Security researchers have discovered and reported bugs, and Valu, Steam's manager, has paid 20,000 dollars (about 2.2 million yen) as a bug finding incentive.

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Security researcher Artem Moskowski found a bug on Steam's game developer portal. This bug is that any user will be able to generate a license key for every game without paying money. Mr. Moskowsky released a progress report from bug discovery to resolution on HackerOne , a security platform for hackers, according to which he reported a bug to Valve, Steam's manager , on 7 August 2018 On 4th day, 4th day after August 11th, 20,000 dollars of incentive was paid by Valve. The progress report continued until November 1, 2018.

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According to Mr. Moskowsky in an interview with The Register , the bug seems to have been discovered by chance while investigating Steam's partner portal. Steam's partner portal allows game studios and developers to generate license keys for their games. This is a function for distributing the issued license key to fans and game writers for free, and requesting review of the game.

However, everyone on the partner portal was ready to generate license keys for every game. Moskowsky says, "By changing only one parameter, we were able to avoid the process of verifying the owner of the game."

According to Valve, the bug has already been fixed, and as a result of survey, it is said that no one has evidently misused this bug.