Valve says it's safe to play CS:GO and TF2 after source code leaked online

guest · Apr 22, 2020

Valve says it's safe to play CS:GO and TF2 after source code leaked online
Old 2017 source code for leaked online today on 4chan
April 22, 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/valve...csgo-and-tf2-after-source-code-leaked-online/

Valve told ZDNet today that it's safe to play games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 even after their source code leaked online today on 4chan and torrent sites.
The leak has caused panic in the two games' online communities.

For most of the day, gamers have been warning each other that hackers may develop exploits based on the leaked source code that may be used to hack computers connecting to CS:GO and TF2 servers.
Warnings have been circulating all day on Twitter and on the official /r/counterstrike and /r/tf2 subreddits.

"We have not found any reason for players to be alarmed or avoid the current [game] builds," Doug Lombardi, Valve VP of Marketing told ZDNet today. "As always, playing on the official servers is recommended for greatest security."
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The Valve exec says the company is investigating the incident and is now asking users to report any tips about who's behind the leak via the Valve security page.
SOURCE CODE LEAKED ON 4CHAN
However, some information about the leak has already started to surface. Right now it's known that the files were first posted on 4chan, from where they were immediately shared on various torrent sites, gaming forums, Twitter, and Reddit.

However, despite Valve's reassurances that players are safe to play the two games, this may not be the case for long.
Access to a game's source code always makes exploit development much easier, and players are right to warn each other -- although this may not be an immediate threat, right now, but something they need to keep in mind in the coming weeks or months.
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