A gamer seeking financial support for cancer treatment lost $32,000 after downloading from Steam a verified game named Block Blasters that drained his cryptocurrency wallet.
A gamer seeking financial support for cancer treatment lost $32,000 after downloading from Steam a verified game named Block Blasters that drained his cryptocurrency wallet.
Right, so there’s no such thing as an unverified Steam game because every game has to be approved before it appears on the storefront.
So why does the article repeatedly bother to specify that this was a ‘verified Steam game’? By that metric, they’re all verified.
I’m not even mad about it, I’m just confused why they bothered adding the qualifier at all.
It’s just a way of stressing that the author believes Valve have some culpability.
It’s mentioned twice by the article. And the term is probably used because that how the gamer addressed it in their post. I can only speculate, I didn’t write the article.
In any case, it’s a huge fuck up by Valve and not for the first time.
Agreed! I’m kind of surprised they don’t automatically scan updates for malware. Or maybe they do but this slipped under the radar somehow? Either way the system clearly isn’t working.
I would expect they do, you can never expect anything to be flawless where cyber security is concerned unfortunately.