Valve rejected widespread reports of violation of data that allegedly violated the account details of over 89 million Steam users.
IN A compact but forceful postValve said he examined the data leak and confirmed that Steam systems were not violated and users did not have to change passwords or phone numbers.
The leak consisted of venerable text messages containing disposable authentication codes that have expired. They were associated with the phone numbers to which they were sent, but the phone numbers were not related to any details of the account.
“The leaking data did not associate the phone numbers from the Steam account, information about the password, payment information or other personal data,” said Valve. “You cannot use old text messages to violate the Steam account security, and each time the code is used to change the e -mail or password using SMS, you will receive confirmation via e -mail and/or secure messages.
“As a result of this event, you do not have to change the passwords or phone numbers. A good reminder is to treat any account security messages that you have not clearly demanded of the suspect.”
Valve said that he did not describe the source of the leak, noticing that SMS messages, such as leakage, are unwashed and pass through many suppliers. Earlier reports suggest that the source was the seller used by Valve to send authentication codes.
According to initial reports, such as this LinkedIn Post by Underdark.AiThe data was published in a dark network for sale at a price of $ 5,000.
So we can all relax. But this is a good reminder to enable two -component authentication for Steam (and all online accounts) and suspicious of unimposed messages.
