PlateUp! – Workshop Incident - October 2026

Summary

Almost as soon as PlateUp! became available to play, lots of creative people have been enhancing the game by building and sharing their own unofficial content in the form of mods. Given the risks of modding continuing completely outside our control, we decided to support mods officially and enabled the Steam Workshop so that we could step in if we saw any mods that put the safety of players’ games at risk. Over the last four years, we've been monitoring the Workshop, with assistance from the modding community, to ensure the mods there are safe for players to use.

Incident Summary

Unfortunately, on the evening of October 15th, for the first time since launch, a malicious user uploaded mod content to the workshop containing malware. Once we became aware of this, we disabled all the affected mods and banned the user from uploading further mods. From our initial investigation into the mods, they only became actively malicious the next day. The window where they were dangerous to players was approximately four hours long. Accordingly, we believe that only 4 users were affected by the malware and are working with Steam to reach out to these users directly.

We also patched the game immediately to prevent the malicious mods from loading if they are still installed. We have also temporarily prevented the game from loading any new mods. The game will not load any newly uploaded mods until we are confident they are safe.

Affected Workshop Mods

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