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Steam hit by massive data leak exposing decades of game builds

A significant data breach has impacted Valve Corporation's PC gaming platform, Steam, exposing beta builds for numerous games. The leak reportedly includes assets and information related to titles such as Portal 2 and Half-Life 3, spanning a decade of development. AI

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a data breach affecting a widely used platform, which falls under the 'tool' category as it pertains to a service/product rather than a core AI release or research.

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Steam hit by massive data leak exposing decades of game builds

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    🎮 Steam Just Suffered the Biggest Leak in Video Game History Valve's PC gaming platform is at the center of a massive information breach that contains beta buil

    🎮 Steam Just Suffered the Biggest Leak in Video Game History Valve's PC gaming platform is at the center of a massive information breach that contains beta builds for decade's worth of games 📰 Source: Polygon.com 🔗 Link: https://www.polygon.com/steam-leak-valve-portal-2-beta-half…