Gamer, I beg you to change and change you steam Password immediately. Details for approximately 89 million Steam accounts have been obtained and appear to be on sale on Dark Web.
There have been some pretty infamous data leaks and violations over the years in the game circle. Since 2011, there has been Sony’s infamous “PSN Hack.” There have been well-known information breaches from companies such as insomniac and Capcom. I remember when ESA, the association that ran E3 every year, accidentally leaked personal information from a game journalist. However, this alleged violation of steam user data could be one of the biggest in history.
Reportedly affecting millions of steam accounts, the database includes contact details such as user records, phone numbers, two-factor SMS message logs and one-time access codes. This is according to Underdark, a cyber threat security company that originally discovered a dark web forum post looking for data buyers. price? It reportedly costs $5,000.
Underdark also argues that due to the nature of the information in the database, the source of this data is likely to be a third-party vendor or service provider rather than a steam itself. Initially, they claimed that this was Twilio, a cloud communications platform that provides SMS 2FA services, but according to X’s independent journalist Mellow_online1, a representative from Valve reported that the company is not using Twilio as its service provider.
Neither Valve nor other companies have yet to publicly admit that there is a breach of Steam user data. However, given the extent of this suspected violation, I definitely recommend taking precautions to anyone reading this on their Steam account.
One of the quickest and easiest things you can do is log out of all your sessions on every device and change your password. If you haven’t done so already, you’ll also need to set up two-factor email authentication. You must also use only the authentication code sent the moment you request it.
PCGamesn contacted Valve to comment on this suspected data breaches. If we receive a response, we will update this story.
