Valve has issued a statement as the report continued to circulate regarding the Steam hack, which could impact 89 million accounts, revealing personal data, including SMS logs.
A May 10 LinkedIn post had come up to become the source of major controversy in the PC gaming community. An account known as the Underdark AI was reported as a massive Steam Data breach, supposedly to impact shy of 90 million users.
The account, which claimed a post on the well-known dark web web forum, where a malicious actor was seeking $5,000 in exchange for the data they obtained. The data allegedly includes phone numbers, SMS logs for the mobile attached to the accounts and even possible two-factor authentication texts.
There are news of the alleged security quickly caught wind and has been circulating throughout the week. Valve has addressed it head on denying that there were many breach of Steam System.
Valve refutes Claims of Massive Steam Hack
Later after days of investigation, Valve issued a statement on May 14. The company said the recent leak reported did not breach Steam system.
Also, they have said you may have seen reports of the leaks of older text messages which were previously been sent to Steam customers. We have examined to the leak sample and have determined that it was not a breach of the Steam system.
While Steam Cybersecurity team is searching into the source of the leak, they have assured that the damage was minimal. The data which was leaked had older text messages which included one-time codes which were only valid for 15-minute time frames, and the phone number served was sent to.
The Valve has admitted mobile number data was implicated, the leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with the Steam account, password information, Payment information or eles other personal data.
Well to be honest hackers can only do little things. The lack of meaningful threat, Valve even assured users that there is no need to change passwords or even phone numbers as the result of these event.
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