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Verified Steam game exposed for robbing streamer's cancer donations
['Jak Connor']
TweakTown News
A cancer patient has lost all of their donations after they were convinced to download a verified Steam game, which resulted in them being hacked.
TL;DR: A malware-infected Steam game, BlockBlasters, stole approximately $150,000 from users by harvesting Steam login data and cryptocurrency wallets, including $32,000 from cancer patient streamer Raivo Plavnieks.
A cancer patient who was looking for donations to put toward their treatment has lost approximately $32,000 in donations after they downloaded a verified Steam game that was on the platform for almost two months.
How did the Steam game actually steal money from users?
In a nutshell, the Steam game scraped Steam login info and any other relevant information that was then used to break into cryptocurrency wallets of users.
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