A dark web group claimed to sell over 89 million steam user records, but valve says they are old text messages and phone numbers unrelated to accounts Valve advises users to enable mobile authenticator app and monitor account activity. The company advises users to enable 2fa and ignore suspicious messages.
Steam suffers an 89 million account data leak in a post on x, user mellowonline1 drew attention to another post on linkedin from underdark ai. Hackers accessed phone numbers and sms codes linked to most steam accounts, but not personal or financial data A threat actor claims to have hacked 89 million steam user records and offered them for sale on a dark web forum
The leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data.