Anyone experienced their Steam accounts got hacked?

[Kervin]

When I woke up there was this red notice that my account got blocked. All of of a sudden my account got completely hacked. Someone made me join different Steam groups that I have no interest in, made random spam comments on accounts' other accounts, and worst of all a hacker used my account to post fake Steam gift card links to my friends that I added. I don't even know if the hacker made me like and favorited other posts.

[Thiesen]

Do NOT go spreading your Steam credentials everywhere...

You at some point in the past went to a "trading" site and they phished your information

You will not get anything back of what was stolen from you

You also seem to be a member of som dubious groups...

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Kervin:

Anyone experienced their Steam accounts got hacked?

When I woke up there was this red notice that my account got blocked. All of of a sudden my account got completely hacked. Someone made me join different Steam groups that I have no interest in, made random spam comments on accounts' other accounts, and worst of all a hacker used my account to post fake Steam gift card links to my friends that I added. I don't even know if the hacker made me like and favorited other posts.

Mine is fine.

Did you secure your account?

[NuLife]

just by the groups ur in says it all, if u ever went and signed into steam through them, thats ur problem right there, u need to secure ur account back

[magicISO Sweden]

Accounts are phished not hacked.

You gave away all your account details.

The account name, the password and the KEY to the door, the Steam Guard Mobile code giving them access to the account.

How? by either logging into a known scam site or sites, tailored malware on your PC, the vote for my team scam, you have a pending ban scam on Discord, free knife click the link etc.

How does Steam (a program) know it is not you when all the account details are correct? It doesn't, therefore any action taken on your account is seen as you doing said actions.

The alternative is not plausible:

1) Someone would have to "GUESS" your account name from "millions of possible combinations".

2) Next they would have to "GUESS" your password from "millions of possible combinations" and then match it to your account name with "millions of possible combinations".

3) And finally they would have to "GUESS" the Steam Guard Mobile code "which changes every 30 seconds" to match both your account name and password to then have access your account.

[Chika Ogiue]

20 years of using Steam and not once have I experienced my account being hacked, hijacked, or phished. But then, I don't go around using dodgy sites, believing farfetched offers, voting for teams, or buying obvious lies about jane123 on discord being a valve fraud officer.

With that said, do these ASAP:

1. Scan for malware https://www.malwarebytes.com/
2. Deauthorize all other devices https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
3. Change passwords from a clean computer
4. Generate new backup codes for your Mobile App https://store.steampowered.com/twofactor/manage
5. Revoke the API key https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey (there should be nothing in the APIKEY)

[nullable]

Originally posted by Kervin:

Anyone experienced their Steam accounts got hacked?

No. Back in 2006 I had a bad experience with hotmail/gmail accounts being compromised and learned some lessons and started to take account security very seriously. It's a habit, and it has a lot of benefits. And lots of people don't bother because it doesn't seem important until they get burned, and then lots of people look for reasons or excuses to not be responsible. Which might make one's ego feel better, but it's not a good long term solution for omnipresent security issues that put all accounts at risk to careless or reckless behaviors.

[Taebrythn]

Let's see if someone takes accountability for their actions or blame everyone else for giving it away.

[76561198407601200]

Originally posted by Taebrythn:

Let's see if someone takes accountability for their actions or blame everyone else for giving it away.

Seeing someone take accountability for their actions is more rare than a vac ban that was removed.

[Heraclius Caesar]

Lol..

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by Kervin:

When I woke up there was this red notice that my account got blocked. All of of a sudden my account got completely hacked. Someone made me join different Steam groups that I have no interest in, made random spam comments on accounts' other accounts, and worst of all a hacker used my account to post fake Steam gift card links to my friends that I added. I don't even know if the hacker made me like and favorited other posts.

Your account was HIJACKED because you gave away your login info.

[Mr. Smiles]

No, because I practice basic Internet security such as not giving out my credentials and not downloading malware.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by The Living Tribunal:

Originally posted by Taebrythn:

Let's see if someone takes accountability for their actions or blame everyone else for giving it away.

Seeing someone take accountability for their actions is more rare than a vac ban that was removed.

About right. When someone is caught doing something wrong or in a compromised position, the first thing they do is blame others or a scapegoat. Even big companies do this like intel and nvidia. I think right now Seagate is doing it with their used crypto farming thing because people are selling used hdd's as new by wiping the info tags on the old hdds selling them as new.

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by Kervin:

When I woke up there was this red notice that my account got blocked. All of of a sudden my account got completely hacked. Someone made me join different Steam groups that I have no interest in, made random spam comments on accounts' other accounts, and worst of all a hacker used my account to post fake Steam gift card links to my friends that I added. I don't even know if the hacker made me like and favorited other posts.

steam accounts cannot be hacked.

they can be hijacked.