
The leading comment on this post provides a valuable resource, offering crucial insights about the story. This link takes you to Valve’s page associated with HackerOne, a firm specializing in cybersecurity through employing “ethical hackers” to continually evaluate a company’s security. By addressing potential issues that could be exploited by malicious attacks, they help companies improve their security measures. Although it may appear that Valve is merely acknowledging an honest user, this practice is quite common. On the HackerOne site, you can see that the compensation for identifying flaws in Valve’s platforms falls into four categories: Low, Medium, High, and Critical. For instance, reporting a low-severity bug could earn up to $200, while a critical bug report might win the hacker between $2,500 and $7,500. Since Valve partnered with HackerOne in 2018, they have distributed over two million dollars as rewards for discovered bugs.