AMD Accidentally Leaks 1.7 Million DiRT 3 Keys

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 6, 2011 @08:18PM from the oops-times-one-point-seven-million dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The free game with every graphics card deal has finally backfired for AMD and Codemasters. Due to a lack of .htaccess, 1.7 million keys for a free copy of DiRT 3 on Steam have been leaked. No word from AMD or Codemasters yet, but I'm sure Valve will block all the codes on Steam soon. One question that remains: if you used one of the codes, will Steam ban your account? There could be a few very unhappy gamers later today if that happens." The exact number of keys is in question — reports range from 250,000 to 3 million — but AMD confirmed that a leak did occur.

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WTF? by Megane · 2011-09-06 22:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

The reason access to all these keys has been granted is due to a lack of .htaccess on AMD’s site.
What's all this stupid talk about .htacess anyway? Those are the kind of files that should not be below a web server's DocumentRoot in the first place. The reason access to all these keys has been grated is because some moron put them in a live area of the web server where they didn't belong.

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