Poured through data? The valve finally breaks the silence

According to various news agencies, A mutated Data leak on the valve, It now turns out that it was only useless authenticator information.

Directly from a horror film

Please pay? It was reported that 89 million user accounts were affected by this “data leak”. Names, payment information and passwords were impaired and distributed in the dark network. This has happened to other companies and websites in the past, and there is even a way to check this: The website has already passed on to the public.

The data is useless for everyone

But in the case of steam we can breathe a sigh of relief: In a report by Valve, you confirm that there must have been some data leaks. But that the document in question Contains only one -time review codes These are only 15 minutes and the telephone numbers they were sent to. Although according to Valve this is not great You couldn't really do a lot with the phone number alone.

Your accounts are still sure

According to Valve, “the leaked The data did not link the phone numbers to a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data And old text messages cannot be used to violate the safety of your Steam account, and if a code is used to change your Steam -E email or password using SMS. You will receive a confirmation by e -mail and/or Steam Secure messages. “

In the end, Valve makes the most important thing clear: it is not necessary to change your passwords quickly because your Steam accounts are still safe.