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"Epic Games Store client contains spyware targeting Steam users"

The data copied contains names of friends and games played

Raymond Bakker

Saturday, March 16, 2019 | 15:49 GMT

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"Epic Games Store client contains spyware targeting Steam users"

Saturday, March 16, 2019 | 15:49 GMT

Raymond Bakker

The Epic Games Store client copies Steam data after it is installed. The data copied contains names of friends, which games were played and how long those were played. Epic Games confirmed the collecting of this data.

According to a recent Reddit post, the Epic Games Store client contains "spyware" that copies Steam's localconfig.vdf file after it is installed. The copied data contains names of friends, a list of recently played titles and how long those titles have been played.

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