Steam-developer Valve is dealing with some leaked game files that have reportedly been discovered for several unreleased pieces of content for both its own games and games from some third-party studios. Unlike recent leaks for GTA 6 which were seemingly obtained through hacking or some method unauthorized access, the leaked Valve game files are reportedly a result of human error.
Over the weekend, it was discovered that Valve had left some of its game file data accessible to the public, specifically for internal builds and game assets for titles that were being developed and released between 2003 and 2013. So, none of these are new games that haven’t been launched. By this point, no unannounced or unreleased games were exposed. However, the leak did expose a large variety of unreleased builds that were at one point, in development. For instance, players found files for early Portal 2 test builds that were using the arms of characters from Team Fortress 2 as placeholders. There were also some unreleased files for Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and several files relating to third-party publisher games.
Files for hundreds of third-party games leaked alongside those from Valve
It wasn’t just Valve’s games that were leaked. There are reportedly files relating to “hundreds” of games coming from third-party publishers. One user named Cosmic Eternity on Twitter found files relating to the second beta for Sonic 4 Episode 2 meant for PC. Another user reportedly found files that were related to Fallout: New Vegas.
In all there were about 12TB of data files that were part of the leak. According to Notebookcheck, the leak is a result of Valve leaving an endpoint on its Steam2 infrastructure exposed, which just allowed anyone access. It’s also reported that much of the data files have yet to be inspected, and that the community is still going through and trying to separate genuinely interesting pieces of data from “useless and broken code.”
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