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Twitch streamer raising money for cancer treatment has funds stolen by malware-ridden Steam game — BlockBlasters title stole $150,000 from hundreds of players
['Nathaniel Mott', 'Freelance News', 'Features Writer', 'Alvar', 'Miles']
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It has been 0 days since the Steam marketplace has been used to deliver malware to unsuspecting gamers who download titles from Valve's long-running platform.
Twitch streamer Raivo "RastalandTV" Plavnieks said on Sept. 30 that over $32,000 worth of cryptocurrency—which had been donated to him to help pay for cancer treatments—was stolen after he installed a Steam game called "BlockBlasters" when someone in his stream chat recommended it to him.
That means the game was actively being used to deliver malware for nearly a month before the RastalandTV hack.
Some of the discussion around this incident has focused on the claim that "BlockBlasters" was marked as "Verified" on Steam.
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