This 16-Year-Old Hacker Releases A Silly Game By Hacking Into Steam

  This 16-year-old hacked into Steam to promote his rather silly game on its system

A 16-year-old hacker exploited vulnerability in Steam and went on to publish his 45-second-long ‘game’ onto Steam without a single person at Valve setting eyes on it.

Ruby Nealon, who created the game called Watch Paint Dry, is a game about watching paint dry. It made its way onto Steam without going through Greenlight or acquiring an elusive Valve stamp-of-approval. Thanks to Nealon, the vulnerability he exploited has now been fixed.

He helped them fix this backdoor into Steam, which was his agenda from the start.

“I have been in contact with Valve who have now fixed the vulnerability”, wrote Nealon at the end of his post. “TL;DR — I was responsible for Watch paint dry. Getting caught was part of my plan. It’s just a prank, bro!”