Steam Guard is USELESS

[Yiğit]

So my actual account has been stolen recently. I was wondering how it happened depending on i was activated steam guard too. However, the Steam "GUARD" turned itself OFF, HOWEVER.

Don't do Steam Guard guys, it's useless.

[Brian9824]

Steam guard didn't turn itself off. You gave away your info and steam guard on a phishing site and they turned it off.

Stop entering your info on 3rd party sites. Security doesn't work when you give away your codes

[Crazy Tiger]

Getting phished or getting malware on your computer can compromise your account. Steam Guard doesn't help when you give away your login.

And yes, that's the way hijacks happen. So secure your account and be careful with it.

[Yiğit]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Getting phished or getting malware on your computer can compromise your account. Steam Guard doesn't help when you give away your login.

And yes, that's the way hijacks happen. So secure your account and be careful with it.

Originally posted by brian9824:

Steam guard didn't turn itself off. You gave away your info and steam guard on a phishing site and they turned it off.

Stop entering your info on 3rd party sites. Security doesn't work when you give away your codes

I was logged through steam when i had access to certain site. But how come the steam guard gets disabled without my confirmation? And all those happen in less than five minutes.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Kendrick Lamar:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Getting phished or getting malware on your computer can compromise your account. Steam Guard doesn't help when you give away your login.

And yes, that's the way hijacks happen. So secure your account and be careful with it.

Originally posted by brian9824:

Steam guard didn't turn itself off. You gave away your info and steam guard on a phishing site and they turned it off.

Stop entering your info on 3rd party sites. Security doesn't work when you give away your codes

I was logged through steam when i had access to certain site. But how come the steam guard gets disabled without my confirmation? And all those happen in less than five minutes.

They used your login. As far as the system knows, it was you changing things.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Kendrick Lamar:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Getting phished or getting malware on your computer can compromise your account. Steam Guard doesn't help when you give away your login.

And yes, that's the way hijacks happen. So secure your account and be careful with it.

Originally posted by brian9824:

Steam guard didn't turn itself off. You gave away your info and steam guard on a phishing site and they turned it off.

Stop entering your info on 3rd party sites. Security doesn't work when you give away your codes

I was logged through steam when i had access to certain site. But how come the steam guard gets disabled without my confirmation? And all those happen in less than five minutes.

You logged onto a phishing site and gave away your info. It could have been weeks ago and they could have waited so you don't know when it occured.

Once they have your info they can chance your account and remove your guard in seconds. After all they have all the correct credentials because YOU gave it to them.

This only happens to people who keep giving away their steam info to 3rd party sites.

[Yiğit]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by Kendrick Lamar:

I was logged through steam when i had access to certain site. But how come the steam guard gets disabled without my confirmation? And all those happen in less than five minutes.

They used your login. As far as the system knows, it was you changing things.

So the steam guard can be disabled as you login into account and don't confirm anything. Nice move Steam, nice move..

[Yiğit]

I hope admins can answer my ticket ASAP. The way Steam performs it's security is not cool at all..

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Kendrick Lamar:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

They used your login. As far as the system knows, it was you changing things.

So the steam guard can be disabled as you login into account and don't confirm anything. Nice move Steam, nice move..

It can be disabled if they have your password and steam guard code which you ar never supposed to give out....

So nice move you giving away all your info to scammers.....

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Kendrick Lamar:

I hope admins can answer my ticket ASAP. The way Steam performs it's security is not cool at all..

Steam security is fine. No one has ever had their account hacked with steam guard EVER. You can't prevent people frombl being idiots and giving everything away though...

No amount of security can fix that

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Kendrick Lamar:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

They used your login. As far as the system knows, it was you changing things.

So the steam guard can be disabled as you login into account and don't confirm anything. Nice move Steam, nice move..

How is that an error on Steams part? YOU give away your credentials, so again, according to the system it's you logging in.

The weakest link in any security system is the user. Especially if they're in denial.

[Variant]

The system is fine it's the user that is useless.

[headholo]

I think i see what's he trying to say.
I don't think steam can stop it if you're the one who logged in.
The guard does work to stop others logging in to your account but if you are logging into a fake hijacking site that is using what looks like the steam api
then the onus is on you to check the site before logging in.

I got caught out recently ,didn't think it would happen to me as i'm always very careful ,have been for years and years.

It just takes that one click when you're not paying attention and ...Bam.

[Lokiator]

The safest way to avoid phishing sites is to login with your Steam credentials on a known, safe site first. Then when you go to login to a suspicious site with your Steam account, if the site is legit it won't ask for credentials - it'll just have the login button lit. If it asks for your password / Steam guard info even though you're already logged in on a safe site, then it's a fake login page designed to steal your credentials.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Lokiator:

to login with your Steam credentials on a known, safe site first.

steamcommunity.com store.steampowered.com

not any "known" "safe" site because no website that uses Steams openid auth system can be classified as safe or known officially in any way shape or form.

[Rens Agatha ⁧【レンス】]

looks like someone login to a phishing website with steam...

atleast this normal dialy steam forum start to live again than other thread who complain with the event because they are not corgi :))))