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A massive Valve leak just exposed 12TB of old Steam data, no hacking required

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A hot potato: Valve has just gone through what might be the worst weekend in recent history. The PC gaming giant was hit by a gigantic leak of private gaming data, a multi-terabyte trove containing information about numerous unreleased titles and a large amount of third-party content. Enthusiasts should be especially careful when handling all this "hot" and potentially copyrighted gaming data, experts warn.

From September 2003 to early 2013, Valve employed a "Steam2" server architecture to manage data flowing through its PC gaming store. Now, a substantial portion of that data is being shared through the BitTorrent network after someone uploaded the content over the weekend. The Steam2 content server dump, also known as the "Teraleak" incident, includes 12 terabytes of unreleased products from both Valve and other popular PC developers.

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