Valve suffers the biggest leak in its history- more than 61GB of assets from Team Fortress 2 is now out online
In another major leak suffered by the gaming industry, assets from Valve's Team Fortress 2, and other games like Portal, and Half Life 2 is now circulating online. Here's everything you need to know.
After Rockstar Games, Valve has now fallen prey to the exploit of the leakers. Valve has suffered what is now being dubbed as one of the biggest leaks in the company’s history. Assets from games like Portal, Half-Life 2, including its multiplayer counterpart, and Team Fortress 2 are now out online. However, nothing from any of Valve’s upcoming projects have yet been outed by the leaker. Regardless, it continues to be one of the biggest security threats that Valve has ever faced. Here are the details.
Valve game assets leaked online- Details
The leak has been traced back to an account by the name of WarndererLeaker. An entire folder of assets were released reportedly through Discord. Apparently the leaker had the files with them since 2016, until they exposed them in this leak. Turns out that the leaker had spotted the material going public from somewhere else, which is when they decided to add to the fire. In a Discord chat, WandererLeaker was recorded saying the following, “I don't care anymore. I also did my toying around with it for a few years, did not upload because I was threatened every time [...] A real shame. I have no legal binding to these files. Not anymore”.
They held this since 2016 pic.twitter.com/f4uH6IrWjr
— ⛄️Reese’s .⛄️ (@NwolcRaving) January 12, 2023
Team Fortress 2 seems to have had the maximum number of assets in the repository. The game alone accounts for about 61GB of the total size of the files. It includes maps, models, PSDs and VMFs including those that were never released for the public. A Team Fortress 2 content creator, Richter Overtime has even commented on the leak with, “Once the community finishes digesting this (61GB), there will be nothing else to talk about.”
🚨!!The ENTIRE TF2 asset repo just leaked!!🚨
— Richter Overtime (@richterovertime) January 12, 2023
Tons of never before seen maps, models, PSDs & VMFs, everything.
Once the community finishes digesting this(61gb), there will be nothing else to talk about
This is the last official TF2 content drop you or I will ever see. pic.twitter.com/0pGjnMQoOB
Highlights include a prototype of the Raid mode which was ultimately canceled, but can still be spotted in the Mann Vs. Machine mode, a 3D model of Saxton Hale, and some green and yellow textures.
Regardless, in the coming days we might get to understand more of these elements and their original purpose in the game Team Fortress 2. 61GB is a lot of material that is now out for public scrutiny and it will be a while till people have gone over everything. As for the gaming industry and the security threat that it faces, this is just another day-another leak. The last one of as big a scale as this would be GTA 6 leak from last year where more than 90 minutes was circulated online.
