Can I region lock log-in attempts on my account?

[Stonechitlin]

I am afraid my account is going to get hacked at some point. I receive steam guard emails at least once a week from different countrys, and have changed password several times.

I am at a loss as to what I should do next.

Help.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

No.

Check the emails carefully and look at the account name used in them.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Stonechitlin:

I am afraid my account is going to get hacked at some point. I receive steam guard emails at least once a week from different countrys, and have changed password several times.

I am at a loss as to what I should do next.

Help.

L33t hackers aren't bypassing Steam security. The only realistic way your account gets compromised is if you're careless or reckless with the account credentials and offer them up to anyone who asks.

It's probably bait for phishing. Or maybe you leaked your user name at some point. But that's not enough to get access to your account if everything else is secure.

[♛𝓥𝓘𝓑𝓔𝓝♛]

You can always change the email that your using from this steam account. Add family mode on for steam. (Search up how to set family mode on steam). Also use different passwords for your email and steam. Lastly go to settings->account->manage steam guard account security-> deauthorize all other devices. (this will kick you outta your mobile authenticater account and any other device your logged into. These are all the things that I've personally done, but am yet to see if it works. Good luck.

[♛𝓥𝓘𝓑𝓔𝓝♛]

Tell me if you stop getting different logins from different countries. I would like to see if this is going to work. So that I myself feel safe as well.

[Supafly]

No you can't. Accounts aren't hacked they get hijacked when users give away their credential. Usually on Phishing sites. Region locking won't do anything if sites were the source because they can pull information, including IP address and location, that would allow them to mimic your location and even your system. So it'd change nothing when it comes to actual account hijackings.

I say nothing but I feel it'd make things worse. Users would feel even more secure with their accounts and exercise poor security. That could result in even MORE hijackings. Imagine someone is visiting friends/family, working abroad or on holiday. They wouldn't be able to login for any reason because they are not in the same location. Well not with masking their own location..............which is against Steams terms.

[GodOfGuns]

sorry but this is unacceptable
99% of all users on any website or service simply never travel and use the account when away(for most services)
region locking is a CRITICAL security feature that is lacking from 99% of websites/services

I will likely never leave the USA, and if I plan to(and actually use a service like steam without being able to RCON my local server pc to retroactively enable that new country) I will enable that specific country for a period of my vacation(timed exceptions will be critical for security during vacations)

an answer of "you can't do that and we don't plan to add it" (especially for a service like steam that can have thousands of dollars of assets poured into it) is simply a "we hate our users, we want them to get robbed and have to pay us more money, you should pirate our games instead"

The ONLY valid way to show you care about security of users is to add theis valve, no excuses, get on it

example, I am 100% confident that my password has NEVER been released to ANY shady sites(it literally has only ever been inserted in the steam domain/app as I pay attention to the URL when logging in) and yet somehow no matter if I change my password or not some random person from a country like Bangladesh, one I have never been to and likely never will visit, has triggered a steam guard code request

I keep my email secure with a guaranteed unique password and am obsessed with any tiny security risk to it so they never get on any of my accounts
but it shouldn't have been possible in the first place, Bangladesh should not have been even allowed to find out if my password was valid, it should have checked the username against the location and said "sorry this account has banned login attempts from this country, please return to one of the enabled countries or contact support to allow this country to connect, the password was not checked for validity"

[Lithurge]

Originally posted by GodOfGuns:

The ONLY valid way to show you care about security of users is to add theis valve, no excuses, get on it

You do realise you're not speaking to any Steam/Valve employees here?

Personally I've never had any warnings about attempt to access my account nor have I had my account hijacked, because I exercise care when dealing with my login details across all sites.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by GodOfGuns:

sorry but this is unacceptable
99% of all users on any website or service simply never travel and use the account when away(for most services)
region locking is a CRITICAL security feature that is lacking from 99% of websites/services

READ the thread before you Necro. It's completely unacceptable to necro a threadd that is 3 years old and NOT even reading it to see the flaws that would cause issues whilst solving nothing. It'd take hijackers seconds to tweak their systems circumvent this

Region locking won't solve anything and the fact you or anyone else has no plans to travel means nothing aswell.

1. Use a phishing website and they can SEE you region from looking at you IP address. Just do a web search for 'what is my IP address and look at all the results that will give the address and the Country you are in. If sites can see that when you connect locking your account will mean nothing because hijackers will just mask theirs.
2. You get an unexpected trip to somewhere out of the country. Free holiday, medical operation, work trip or something else. During the trip your account gets hijacked. You know because you see Steam emails. I'm sorry you can't lock it and recover the account until you get home because it's region locked.

EDIT: oh and to cicumvent the simplest way would be to use a VPN...I just switched to a different Country before I edited