2500 keys have leaked on a russian forum. There is a chance your Steam account will be suspended for using one of those codes, so you should probably NOT enter DiRT 3 giveaways.

Edit: Maybe they'll just remove the game from your account. Is it worth risking? You decide.

According to Steam's policy:

"There is a Zero-Tolerance policy for any violations of the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Online Code of Conduct. All accounts in a user's possession for any of the following activities will be suspended: Piracy or Hacking

This includes using an unauthorized ("hacked") Steam client to access Steam, attempting to register fake CD Keys or attempting to register a CD Key which has been published on the internet."

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было 31 400 ключей, они выложили остатки которые не были распроданы. не будут они банить 31 400 пользователей. /
Was 31 400 keys, they posted the remains of which were not sold out. They will not ban users 31 400(google tran)

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so many keys were stolen?

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LOL thats why a guy gave 10 copies away, I thought: This guy must be insane to give 500 dollars worth of games away.

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Русские такие русские xD

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OMFG... You really think Gabe will kill 30000 accounts? lol
p.s.
This 2500 keys not my :D

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Sure, it'd probably take them less then a minute. It's not like they would have to do it manually.
Just take the list Codemasters provides and let the computer automatically revoke all those keys and disable associated accounts.
It's not as though they need to type in all or even any of the keys or do any manual work.

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They killed 20000 accounts before, with HL2...

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really? what was the reason? A similar case?

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HL2 is from Valve. Valve is owner from Steam, or? So it's not the same!

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i was wondering why so many dirt 3 giveaways were going on...

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Ban? Cool joke. Games gone from accounts, but who have dirt from this list don't get ban.

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I can't find any good key; all that i tried are activated :(

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You checked all 2500 of them?!? … Man, you type FAST.

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Lol, not all of them; i copy+paste at least 200 random keys..

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ever thought that participating in a crime is a bad thing to do?

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lol

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The one I got in a trade some time ago starts with an "X" instead of an "F". Guess im kinda save then, not even google knows my Key :D

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lol, you seriously did not type your key in the google search box... did you? :O

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I don't know why people are saying you can't get your account banned for using something like this. It's laid out clearly on the support page for "why can a Steam account get disabled".

Read it. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5406-WFZC-5519

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+1

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Those rules need some fixing then. The dont accept gifts from unkown people kind of applies to this entire site.

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Appearntly steam got ahold of the leaked list and is deactivating the games but not banning people.

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I would like some real proof. The first link was 2 months ago and I read through the letter that codemasters sent out and I don't recall them saying anything about losing the cd keys. what they lost was stored personal info like emails. As for that list of 2500 keys. WTH is that? so far everyone who has posted on here says their dirt3 key doesn't even come close to those keys.

I WANT SOME REAL PROOF. DON'T ACCUSE INNOCENT WITHOUT PROOF.

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Sorry for my stupidity but how could these keys leak out?

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People on the Steam forums are saying the game is being removed from their account and nothing more. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2098484

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Then they are being very lenient... they can ban the account at their discretion because of this article

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Why all the panic, Valve would just remove the game and I am betting those codes wouldn't work already.

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Lol, kioshi finally got banned with his copypasted hacked keys. Someone has ended his gloryfapping spree :D

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he gave me one of these keys w/out me even asking for one, and i redeemed it w/out even knowing it was DiRT 3, Am I in trouble? o_O

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Depends on whether Steam decides to go on a suspension spree. More likely it'll just be removed from your account, but it's hard to know.
I'd contact Steam and explain the situation if you're worried.

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Just did that, thanks... He randomly messaged me one and I was like "wonder what this is..." and activated it... FML. I sent in a support ticket and explained that I don't even have a big interest in the game and just want it removed if it's at all possibly stolen. :(

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Thanks to advise.

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Another batch of 3000 keys has been posted about an hour ago.
This is no good.

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Woah.

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That's definitely not good. We may be seeing even more Dirt 3 giveaways than before.

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Do they start with certain letters?

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F. Such as all the ones spammed in my giveaway.

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A while ago gave away a bunch of Metro 2033 keys. They meant to give them to specific people, but actually just listed the game on their site for free. When that happened, all the keys just got disabled and the game was removed from the account of anyone that managed to activate it. Hopefully this is treated in the same way.

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Actually that isn't true, valve did nothing and everyone got to keep their copy of metro 2033.

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Thank god I activated my DiRT 3 key kinda legally. (AMD Vision Challenge and proxies)

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Yea same here but I fear our keys might be stolen too now! and Valve would consider them pirated. Well I still have AMD message and the unique code in my email.

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I doubt AMD are sending out stolen keys.

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I meant the hackers might have got the list of keys used by the AMD promo , not that AMD sent stolen keys!

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Haha, that makes more sense.

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From others posts, It sounds like the amd keys are not affected.

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in the AMD Dirt 3 promo, is it just graphic cards with the Unique IDs? :o

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Omg, when was this?! I bought a dirt 3 code from someone a couple of weeks back... :( Please tell me it isn't from this list... how can I check?!

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Remember the first symbols in key. FHX and FH means leaked keys. Others are fine. As far as I can remember.

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how do you know these are part of leaked keys? only 2500 keys?

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I removed entry 10 seconds before end of 6 dirt keys giveaway yesterday, coz I found out this, thank god.

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yesterday I got a guy on the chat giving me a key for dirt 3, I thought I have won it from here, and registered the key without checking first, it was a stolen key for sure.

I have sent a ticket to steam support to remove the game from my account.

better safe than sorry.

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I was given a key to, it doesnt match the starting letters as the leaked ones, but I've emailed support asking them to check it, at least then I'll have peace of mind.

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