'I am honestly very disappointed because they straight up ignored me most of the time,' Florian said in an online chat.Ī Valve spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.įlorian said that he was able to code an exploit to take advantage of the bug that works 80 percent of the time, according to his estimate. Valve admitted that it was being slow to respond, even though it classified the bug as 'critical' in the thread with the researchers, which Motherboard reviewed. Florian's correspondence with Valve occurred on HackerOne, the bug bounty platform used by the company to get reports about vulnerabilities.