API key help please

[Ayoooj]

I recently fell for a scam that someone messaged me and offered to buy my h1z1 skins for some good money till at one point they were asking me to go to a website to use there promo code not knowing that when I looked it up later that’s how they got my api key and scammed me and took over $100 in skins can anybody please tell me how to change my api key and when I change it will I be safe ? Thank you for whoever responds :)

[Glimmer]

hugommm | swap.gg の投稿を引用：

if I never got scammed and nobody knows my api key, do I still need to do all that to disable api key?

If you have an API key listed and you're not running a bot, then you should remove the API key.

[J4MESOX4D]

hugommm | swap.gg の投稿を引用：

Muppet among Puppets の投稿を引用：

Deauthorize all devices,
change password,
create new backup codes,
check for email and phone number in steam.

After you did this deauthorize all devices again, just to be sure the bot couldnt get in again.

They read all your chats and are on your account. Actually they could read all your chats that you made for a long time, retro-active.

So think carefully what you inserted in that site and in chat. All is burnt.


And follow the rule number 1 in the internet:
You NEVER log in to links that someone gives you.

if I never got scammed and nobody knows my api key, do I still need to do all that to disable api key?

Giving your credentials away to scam sites allows them to generate a backdoor API key used to control trades so if you haven't created one and there's one there, you should consider the account shadow-hijacked and do all the steps listed here https://forums.steamrep.com/pages/hijacking/ at the bottom whilst reading the whole article carefully.

[Erik]

Hi i fell for a scam and someone took my account. i lost a 240$ knife when i sold it to a fake skinbaron bot i changed my password like 3 times but they can still login to my account i checked it on my login history. i have a mobile authentificator and reset my api key can someone help me plssss

[Wolf Knight]

Erik の投稿を引用：

Hi i fell for a scam and someone took my account. i lost a 240$ knife when i sold it to a fake skinbaron bot i changed my password like 3 times but they can still login to my account i checked it on my login history. i have a mobile authentificator and reset my api key can someone help me plssss

If you have access to the account

Steps to take NOW:
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)


Please review how you are logging into Steam, you somehow gave them your log in information. This could of been due to the computer being compromised and redirecting to a fake login, or you using a 3rd party site to login to steam.

Once you are sure you have regained control, you can start trading again. Please triple check any trades you make to be sure they are going to the correct account.

After you have secured the account, please edit your profile back to normal (if it was altered by the hijacker/scammer)

If you have lost access to the account

Account Recovery

https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithAccountStolen
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2347-qdfn-4366

Here is a guide that another Steam user was kind enough to make. It will help you navigate your way thru the recovery process if you are having any problems.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1126288560

you should have received an email about the changes to your password/email. In that email is a link that allows you to lock the account, this will help reduce the damage that the hijacker can do.

[Erik]

Wolf Knight の投稿を引用：

Erik の投稿を引用：

Hi i fell for a scam and someone took my account. i lost a 240$ knife when i sold it to a fake skinbaron bot i changed my password like 3 times but they can still login to my account i checked it on my login history. i have a mobile authentificator and reset my api key can someone help me plssss

If you have access to the account

Steps to take NOW:
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)


Please review how you are logging into Steam, you somehow gave them your log in information. This could of been due to the computer being compromised and redirecting to a fake login, or you using a 3rd party site to login to steam.

Once you are sure you have regained control, you can start trading again. Please triple check any trades you make to be sure they are going to the correct account.

After you have secured the account, please edit your profile back to normal (if it was altered by the hijacker/scammer)

If you have lost access to the account

Account Recovery

https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithAccountStolen
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2347-qdfn-4366

Here is a guide that another Steam user was kind enough to make. It will help you navigate your way thru the recovery process if you are having any problems.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1126288560

you should have received an email about the changes to your password/email. In that email is a link that allows you to lock the account, this will help reduce the damage that the hijacker can do.

does the scan programm cost money?

[Erik]

i have scanned my pc and put 81 programms in quarantine 1 of them had the name santivirus, what does it mean?

[Wolf Knight]

Erik の投稿を引用：

i have scanned my pc and put 81 programms in quarantine 1 of them had the name santivirus, what does it mean?

dont know, you need to research it. get your account secured, and then start thinking about getting your computer protected. the next time you have an account compromised, it may be more valuable then a silly gaming account.

[Erik]

ok thx

[Muppet among Puppets]

Erik の投稿を引用：

i have scanned my pc and put 81 programms in quarantine 1 of them had the name santivirus, what does it mean?

81?
What was that?

I would look closely if it found one thing (not just something "possible unwanted").
And to be sure i would format and reinstall if it was 1 serious thing already. Especially when its 81.

Santivirus is a fake antivirus. If you did not install it, something else did.

[Flying Tiger]

Erik の投稿を引用：

ok thx

Ok so the real response you need is to download a bootable anti-virus, put it on a USB stick and run it on boot. Then start in safe mode and make sure all the programs listed are removed.


I'm just here because my steam API key isn't working to tell me how many hackers have been in my games but hey, that's how you get rid of a bad bad time.

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

☮Voyager の投稿を引用：

Erik の投稿を引用：

ok thx

Ok so the real response you need is to download a bootable anti-virus, put it on a USB stick and run it on boot. Then start in safe mode and make sure all the programs listed are removed.


I'm just here because my steam API key isn't working to tell me how many hackers have been in my games but hey, that's how you get rid of a bad bad time.

That isn't remotely what the api key does.

[Matt]

Muppet among Puppets の投稿を引用：

凱特佐佐木 の投稿を引用：

How can i change my Api key?

Revoke what is there. https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey


Do this first:

Muppet among Puppets の投稿を引用：

Deauthorize all devices,
change password,
create new backup codes,
check for email and phone number in steam.

After you did this deauthorize all devices again, just to be sure the bot couldnt get in again.

They read all your chats and are on your account. Actually they could read all your chats that you made for a long time, retro-active.

So think carefully what you inserted in that site and in chat. All is burnt.


And follow the rule number 1 in the internet:
You NEVER log in to links that someone gives you.

i do that many times and that doesnt work for me + i make other things like new trade link, change email and idk what can i do

[Muppet among Puppets]

VeTis の投稿を引用：

i do that many times and that doesnt work for me + i make other things like new trade link, change email and idk what can i do

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)

[Sneaky]

If your API hasn’t been compromised and you haven’t created one, it should be blank correct?

[rawWwRrr]

Sneaky の投稿を引用：

If your API hasn’t been compromised and you haven’t created one, it should be blank correct?

Correct.

It should look like this:
https://i.imgur.com/BOvYZBs.png