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76561198219174012 Dec 28, 2017 @ 9:56pm
I have just been hacked by someone on my friend's list who i added 3 years ago using only my steam guard code.
The person asked me for my steam code after he said he would trade me an item because he was quitting or something. He got me to give him my steam guarde code and then in 3 seconds my account was logged out and details changed. How can this happen? I already sent a help request support ticket etc, but I'm in urgent need of assistance.
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76561198219174012 Dec 28, 2017 @ 9:57pm 
The account I'm referring to is this https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198084403250
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Matt Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:09pm 
How could this happen? You gave away your account credentials...

You can report that person on their profile.
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76561198219174012 Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:15pm 
Yeah that was stupid of me actually, I never knew a steam guard code would just get my account hijacked. I never told the guy my password or anything of that matter.
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76561198219174012 Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:17pm 
http://steamcommunity.com/id/shiratasa this is the person that hacked me.
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Matt Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:17pm 
Ohh they had your password cause they could not have logged in without it. Probably you have malware on your computer.
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76561198219174012 Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:22pm 
Hmm.. well I'm protected by malwarebytes so I'm not sure if that's the case. He asked me for my account name and steam code from steam guard. How long do you think my help request ticket will be responded? It's currently holidays so I feel like they might not respond until after New Year's.
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Seven7 Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:34pm 
recently was similar story in the Russian-speaking section - it turned out that the user himself was to blame, and besides everything was different he show \ say SGMA codes to his "friend", but it was quick and he have time to change password

remember SGMA codes not expires fast, it actual at least 5 minutes!

And you do not read the anti-virus message correctly: "No viruses found" does not mean that they do not exist, it means "No known viruses detected" ;)
Last edited by Seven7; Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:54pm
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76561198219174012 Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:34pm 
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here's a picture of the scanning of any malware and it gave me no malware threats. How else could he have gotetn my password? Must be some other way that he got it...
Last edited by Psychology; Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:35pm
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Kelmenjar Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:36pm 
he didnt need the pw - you gave him username and code - all he hadto do was login as 'forgot my password' - you gave him all he needed to reset pw and walk right in
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76561198219174012 Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:43pm 
Yep that's exactly what happened. You're right. Now we're at the recovering process so how long do you think Steam support will respond to my ticket.
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Kelmenjar Dec 28, 2017 @ 10:45pm 
couldn't say as I've never had to go thru acct recovery, but best o' luck (and be more careful/suspicious in the future)
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76561198219174012 Dec 28, 2017 @ 11:58pm 
alright so i self locked the account when i went on to my original email. Might be a little too late with my items since it's already been 2 hours, but hopefully, I get my account back in due time. Any more suggestions or advice to speed up this process will be great. Thanks for your comments so far.
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