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89 million Steam accounts at risk from hackers — enable this security feature to protect your account now

If you’re like me and have been buying the best PC games on Steam digitally for the past 20 years, you might want to change your password, as a hacker is currently selling millions of account details ...
PC Magazine

Steam Store Spreads Malware After Hacker Hijacks Developer Accounts

Fortunately, fewer than 100 Steam users are affected, according to Valve. Valve’s Steam store was reportedly exploited to spread malware to a small number of users. The incident occurred after a ...
Game Rant

Steam Retrieves User's Account After It Was Lost for 3 Years

Steam helped recover a hacked account after 3 years, surprising the user. Valve-owned Steam surpassed 40M concurrent users earlier this year. Steam Support not only addresses hacking incidents but ...
Game Rant

Steam User Reunited With Old Account After 18 Years

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
Engadget

Now's a good time to check in on your Steam account security

Update May 14, 6:38PM ET: Valve has confirmed that Steam systems were not breached and identifying user data has not been stolen or accessed by hackers. The company provided clarification in a Steam ...
PC Gamer

Valve adds new security check after attackers compromise Steam accounts of multiple game devs and update their games with malware

Fewer than 100 Steam users had the games installed, but Valve is adding a new SMS verification step for all developers to try to prevent it from happening again. When you purchase through links on our ...
Polygon

No, Steam wasn’t hacked, and your account details are safe

Valve has dismissed widespread reports of a data breach that supposedly compromised the account details of over 89 million Steam users. In a brief but firm post, Valve said it has examined the leaked ...