A Valve API bug following weekly maintenance exposed achievement data for unreleased and unannounced titles on Steam, including Fable, Persona 6, and Kingdom Hearts 4. Aggregators Exophase and SteamDB automatically collected the data before the issue was identified. This incident follows a separate data breach at shipping partner CEVA Logistics that compromised European customer information in July.
Forza Horizon 6, set to release on May 19, has suffered a significant leak, with players accessing the game early via unencrypted files on SteamDB. Developer Playground Games has vowed to take strict action, including franchise-wide and hardware bans, against those found playing the leaked build. The move has drawn a mixed response from the community, with some questioning the punishment given the leak's apparent origin from a review build mishap.
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