Recently a news was hovering around online world that a hacker has obtained sensitive data from software company called Valve, comprising credit card info from users who have bought content from its digital distribution system Steam. It has been reported that an online user by the false name MaddoxX has sent a message on an anti-Valve site with photos of what as is claimed by him are internal Valve files, comprising the balance sheet and customer transaction data of the company.
While concerned users started complaining about the reported hack on Valve’s official message boards, the talks were deleted. Valve has not so far stated any thing officially in relation to the events, which started spreading out recently.
MaddoxX’s online profile is claimed to state that he is a twenty-two-year-old man from Russia. In his original posting, MaddoxX writes,
Woohoo VALVe you can see those creditcards...on the Internet anytime soon. [I] just need to finish the excel files.” Moreover, he seems to be holding the sensitive data hostage and asking for some kind of ransom. Calling out Valve, he says, “I prefer you come with something good unless you want me to expose ALL of the customers [and] their information.
If the hack seems to be really critical, Valve is legitimately obliged to notify its customers in a few states.
