Valve Corporation

The California Office of the Attorney General reported a data breach involving Valve Corporation on February 8, 2012. The breach is related to a network intrusion that likely resulted in the unauthorized access to a database containing user names, email addresses, encrypted billing addresses, and encrypted credit card information, although no evidence of credit card misuse has been found.

Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-22302

TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/valve-corporation

"id": "val1028080425",
"linkid": "valve-corporation",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "2/2012",
"severity": "50",
"impact": "2",
"explanation": "Attack limited on finance or reputation"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Gaming',
                        'name': 'Valve Corporation',
                        'type': 'Company'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Network Intrusion',
 'data_breach': {'data_encryption': ['billing addresses',
                                     'credit card information'],
                 'personally_identifiable_information': ['user names',
                                                         'email addresses',
                                                         'billing addresses'],
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['user names',
                                              'email addresses',
                                              'encrypted billing addresses',
                                              'encrypted credit card '
                                              'information']},
 'date_detected': '2012-02-08',
 'date_publicly_disclosed': '2012-02-08',
 'description': 'The California Office of the Attorney General reported a data '
                'breach involving Valve Corporation on February 8, 2012. The '
                'breach is related to a network intrusion that likely resulted '
                'in the unauthorized access to a database containing user '
                'names, email addresses, encrypted billing addresses, and '
                'encrypted credit card information, although no evidence of '
                'credit card misuse has been found.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['user names',
                                 'email addresses',
                                 'encrypted billing addresses',
                                 'encrypted credit card information']},
 'references': [{'date_accessed': '2012-02-08',
                 'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
 'title': 'Valve Corporation Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}