Tuesday, September 6th 2011
3 Million Dirt 3 Steam Keys of AMD Radeon Promotion Leaked
In a major embarrassment to the people behind the AMD Radeon Dirt 3 promotion, as many as 3 million Steam product redeem codes of Dirt 3, the new rally simulator game, were leaked to the internet, according to a post on Steam forums by a Bohemia Interactive representative. AMD is running a promotion where select models of Radeon graphics cards across various AIB partners and AMD's own A-Series APUs, come with free Dirt 3 keys that can be redeemed in Steam for a copy of the game.
According to the representative, those millions of keys were stored in an SQL database that could have been easily accessed by a simple missing .htaccess exploit. Steam might blacklist all those keys, and ask users with valid codes to re-register their products with AIB partners for fresh keys. Steam users reported a "Steam Key Giveaway" running on an infamous imageboard, to which the Bohemia Interactive representative responded.
Update 09/06
AMD made the following statement in this regard.
Source:
Steam Community
According to the representative, those millions of keys were stored in an SQL database that could have been easily accessed by a simple missing .htaccess exploit. Steam might blacklist all those keys, and ask users with valid codes to re-register their products with AIB partners for fresh keys. Steam users reported a "Steam Key Giveaway" running on an infamous imageboard, to which the Bohemia Interactive representative responded.
AMD made the following statement in this regard.
You may have heard this weekend, activation keys for free Dirt 3 game vouchers shipping with a few AMD products were compromised. The keys were hosted on a third-party fulfillment agency website, AMD4u.com, and were not on AMD's website. Neither AMD nor Codemasters servers were involved.
We're working closely with everyone to address the situation. AMD will honor all valid game vouchers, but just a heads up, the current situation may result in a short delay before the vouchers can be redeemed.
33 Comments on 3 Million Dirt 3 Steam Keys of AMD Radeon Promotion Leaked
Highly doubt that will hapen if you were able to redeem it. Wouldn't take much to prove your ownership.do you have physical possession of the coupon :ohwell:?
Steam will most probably block that key (the game will go from "ready to play" to "purchase" in your list).
It will then ask those with valid Dirt 3 coupons to get fresh keys from their graphics card vendors. They will be asked to enter the proof of purchase and serial of their graphics card for that.
I was looking forward to going home after I was finished it and giving it a spin...
This is what www.amd4u.com is currently displaying:
we not hacked nor were hacked or involved in any way with this incident ...
i simply stated (as individual) that database with ~3 millions keys of Dirt 3 was leaked to internet
and IMHO that it was done by simple hosting mistake when setting up the webserver
that's all ... whoever reads something more into it has too wild imagination ...