Yesterday, there was a nice little giveaway of Blackwell Deception from the developers. You had to go to their site, add it to your cart and input a code and you'd get it for free. It was rather nice. Unfortunately, that giveaway ended. More unfortunately, someone here on Steamgifts decided that was not acceptable and posted a direct link to the key generator. They'd taken down the frontend of the giveaway, but not the backend at the time. 30,000 keys were stolen overnight. The mods were already at work deleting multiple copies of these giveaway and suspending the users for exploited key giveaways before this. Now, we're likely going to delete every giveaway of Blackwell Deception posted from this giveaway and it has already been removed from the giveaway list. Every key is likely to be revoked from this giveaway. They are currently trying to revoke only the keys used after midnight (not sure what time zone that is but it appears to be midnight GMT), but in case that is impossible, prepare to have every key, including the legitimate ones, removed from your Steam account or whoever you gave it to. Everyone who made multiple giveaways here for these keys will be suspended and have their giveaways deleted. Everyone who didn't exploit the developer's generosity may unfortunately fall victim to the latter anyway to avoid a ton of work for support and yourselves dealing with "fake" giveaways. My apologies to everyone for this, but unfortunately everyone is put out now thanks to one person's greed.
SteamTrades additions:
We are currently debating if suspensions should be passed onto the more exploitive traders (such as the guy I saw with 50 keys).
Direct copy of the Steamgifts post:
Yesterday, there was a nice little giveaway of Blackwell Deception from the developers. You had to go to their site, add it to your cart and input a code and you'd get it for free. It was rather nice. Unfortunately, that giveaway ended. More unfortunately, someone here on Steamgifts decided that was not acceptable and posted a direct link to the key generator. They'd taken down the frontend of the giveaway, but not the backend at the time. 30,000 keys were stolen overnight. The mods were already at work deleting multiple copies of these giveaway and suspending the users for exploited key giveaways before this. Now, we're likely going to delete every giveaway of Blackwell Deception posted from this giveaway and it has already been removed from the giveaway list. Every key is likely to be revoked from this giveaway. They are currently trying to revoke only the keys used after midnight (not sure what time zone that is but it appears to be midnight GMT), but in case that is impossible, prepare to have every key, including the legitimate ones, removed from your Steam account or whoever you gave it to. Everyone who made multiple giveaways here for these keys will be suspended and have their giveaways deleted. Everyone who didn't exploit the developer's generosity may unfortunately fall victim to the latter anyway to avoid a ton of work for support and yourselves dealing with "fake" giveaways. My apologies to everyone for this, but unfortunately everyone is put out now thanks to one person's greed.
SteamTrades additions:
We are currently debating if suspensions should be passed onto the more exploitive traders (such as the guy I saw with 50 keys).