How safe do YOU think Steam is?

[Donald Trump]

me personally? i think it depends on the user, the entire internet is safe as well, as long as the user is smart and doesnt click on random links etc etc etc

same with steam, steam itself is 100% safe, i think there has never been any user info leaks or anything like that idk, thoughts?

[**DeiRowtag]

at least 3

[potato]

it can cause severe burns depending on the temperature and exposure time

[Chika Ogiue]

Originally posted by Yiffy the furry LGBT Cat:

i think there has never been any user info leaks or anything like that idk, thoughts?

There's been several over the years. Including internal fubars that resulted in cached store pages displaying personal information for 34,000 users.

[Mr. Smiles]

If a breach affects a certain number of users, a company has to announce it and share statistics with media.

That means the info of a breach occurance of any meaningful magnitude is public, and can be found with a quick internet search.

I found one from 2011 about a breach using the steam discussion forums, didn't read, but was fron the BBC.

I only skimmed one page, but that was the only one I found.

So pretty safe I guess?

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by Yiffy the furry LGBT Cat:

me personally? i think it depends on the user, the entire internet is safe as well, as long as the user is smart and doesnt click on random links etc etc etc

same with steam, steam itself is 100% safe, i think there has never been any user info leaks or anything like that idk, thoughts?

If you're referring to the safety as far as account hijacking and stolen items and stuff like that. Valve provides more than enough tools to keep your account secure. However, those tools cannot protect the user from themselves.

Meaning if you give away the keys, don't be surprised when someone breaks into your house or in this case Steam account.

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by Chika Ogiue:

Originally posted by Yiffy the furry LGBT Cat:

i think there has never been any user info leaks or anything like that idk, thoughts?

There's been several over the years. Including internal fubars that resulted in cached store pages displaying personal information for 34,000 users.

Can confirm ... I was one of them. It was the December 2015 Christmas Day attack. I was online that day, and saw someone else's info inside my account, (looked like Russian text, maybe), and I'm assuming someone else saw mine. I'm guessing the attack on the cache server caused some sort of buffer overflow.

https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/19852

"The content of these requests varied by page, but some pages included a Steam user’s billing address, the last four digits of their Steam Guard phone number, their purchase history, the last two digits of their credit card number, and/or their email address. These cached requests did not include full credit card numbers, user passwords, or enough data to allow logging in as or completing a transaction as another user.

If you did not browse a Steam Store page with your personal information (such as your account page or a checkout page) in this time frame, that information could not have been shown to another user.

Valve is currently working with our web caching partner to identify users whose information was served to other users, and will be contacting those affected once they have been identified. As no unauthorized actions were allowed on accounts beyond the viewing of cached page information, no additional action is required by users."

Someone attempted to use my debit card at a Bank of Canada ATM in January 2016, but were unable to do so, only because they never had my PIN. I don't recall Steam ever contacting me, however. It caused me a bit of trouble at the time cause I told my bank and they cancelled my debit card, which was my only one at the time -- a little inconvenient.

[lsdninja]

Considering that Steam is currently based on an old version of CEF with a number of documented vulnerabilities, some under active exploitation, I wouldn’t consider it safe right now at all.

[ShelLuser]

I don't think Steam is safe at all!

If you're not careful you can easily loose good nights of sleep in the weekend because of some of these awesome games! :-)

[Donald Trump]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

I don't think Steam is safe at all!

If you're not careful you can easily loose good nights of sleep in the weekend because of some of these awesome games! :NekoWaifuSurprised: :-)

factually correct

[KalGimpa]

over 600 games

with some dl'd multiple times over 8-9 years

no virus'

i feel safe using it

[宇🌸LARA🦄SOULS🌸LIKE]

yeah safe for me

[Brutalness]

Never been hacked. Steam is safe

[BJWyler]

Originally posted by Yiffy the furry LGBT Cat:

me personally? i think it depends on the user, the entire internet is safe as well, as long as the user is smart and doesnt click on random links etc etc etc

same with steam, steam itself is 100% safe, i think there has never been any user info leaks or anything like that idk, thoughts?

Yeah, not really. Nothing is 100% safe. The Internet certainly is not. Despite what any one user may say about their security habits, there are always vulnerabilities that can and will be exploited without the user's knowledge.

Relatively speaking, Steam is as safe to use as can be. But as always, when humans are involved, safety only goes as far as the most greedy and gullible among us.

[H4CK3R MAN]

agree with you OP. as long as you don't log in to phishing sites your account is impenetrable

[Kargor]

So far, I'm not aware of any major incidents with Steam, aside from the caching thing they had a few years ago. Which, in turn, didn't affect me since I don't even store payment data on Steam...

I'm generally not particularly concerned about the client, since as the name suggests, it's just a client anyway. Right now I'm not aware of bugs that would allow attacks on the client via forum postings, user messaging, screenshots or similar attack vectors.