Yes, people do get hacked, rather than phished.

[D. Flame]

https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

Did You Download This Steam Game? Sorry, It's Windows Malware

The free-to-play game, PirateFi, infects users with malware that steals browser cookies, enabling the malware’s creator to hijack access to various online accounts.

[Mountain Months]

yeah literally everyone knows that. it's only here you find a handful of very dedicated spammers on a failing crusade to change the lexicon.

[Amaterasu]

Okay so I'm going to come in and entertain this for a moment. If you download a keylogger onto your computer, that isn't you getting hacked. That's you not doing the basic cybersecurity.

What people think of being hacked is someone pressing a button and all of the sudden, your computer and everything is theirs. If I was a hacker, and I wanted access to something you had, the last thing I'd be trying to hack into is your steam account to go around and buy and trade things. That's too much effort for too little gain even if it would be an effective method of money laundering. Except in order to properly money launder, the person would have their stuff back and had made a net zero in terms of financial change.

Hacking is not like in Hollywood where you just randomly type keys on your keyboard and all of the sudden, you have full access to someone's Steam account. In fact, no hacker worth a damn would target your steam account and start trading your stuff away. They'd target your payment information or your bank account. Steam Store Credit is worthless, meaning it would be a lot of effort for absolutely no gain.

So no, people don't get hacked. They trust things they shouldn't trust, refuse to do the most basic of cyber security, refuse to even let Windows Defender do its job and then complain that someone else gained access to their account.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by Amaterasu:

If you download a keylogger onto your computer, that isn't you getting hacked. That's you not doing the basic cybersecurity.

So by allowing it on the Steam store, Valve didn't due basic cybersecurity, and their customers got hacked as a result of that negligence on Valve's part, got it.

[Amaterasu]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by Amaterasu:

If you download a keylogger onto your computer, that isn't you getting hacked. That's you not doing the basic cybersecurity.

So by allowing it on the Steam store, Valve didn't due basic cybersecurity, and their customers got hacked as a result of that negligence on Valve's part, got it.

This is why I don't like interacting with you. You come to a conclusion and work your way back to it. Anything that is against your conclusion, you ignore. Here. Let me once again add back everything you removed.

Originally posted by Amaterasu:

Okay so I'm going to come in and entertain this for a moment. If you download a keylogger onto your computer, that isn't you getting hacked. That's you not doing the basic cybersecurity.

What people think of being hacked is someone pressing a button and all of the sudden, your computer and everything is theirs. If I was a hacker, and I wanted access to something you had, the last thing I'd be trying to hack into is your steam account to go around and buy and trade things. That's too much effort for too little gain even if it would be an effective method of money laundering. Except in order to properly money launder, the person would have their stuff back and had made a net zero in terms of financial change.

Hacking is not like in Hollywood where you just randomly type keys on your keyboard and all of the sudden, you have full access to someone's Steam account. In fact, no hacker worth a damn would target your steam account and start trading your stuff away. They'd target your payment information or your bank account. Steam Store Credit is worthless, meaning it would be a lot of effort for absolutely no gain.

So no, people don't get hacked. They trust things they shouldn't trust, refuse to do the most basic of cyber security, refuse to even let Windows Defender do its job and then complain that someone else gained access to their account.

[ꉔꏂ꒐꒒ꇙ]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

negligence on Valve's part, got it.

Did Amaterasu say that? or are you riding a stick a little too hard?

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Yes, people do get hacked, rather than phished.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

Did You Download This Steam Game? Sorry, It's Windows Malware

The free-to-play game, PirateFi, infects users with malware that steals browser cookies, enabling the malware’s creator to hijack access to various online accounts.

That's not a hack. That's a phish by other means. No one hacks accounts. The steal them, or hijack as it says in your quote, through various means, one of which is malware. The list the community provides to users to recover hijacked accounts assumes malware as an attack vector and suggestions scanning the system before anything else, as well as to change the password from a safe, clean system.

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)/quote]

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Yes, people do get hacked, rather than phished.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

That's not a hack. That's a phish by other means. No one hacks accounts. The steal them, or hijack as it says in your quote, through various means, one of which is malware. The list the community provides to users to recover hijacked accounts assumes malware as an attack vector and suggestions scanning the system before anything else, as well as to change the password from a safe, clean system.

Phishing is social engineering, and it involves talking people into doing something foolish and out of the ordinary.

Downloading a game from Steam does not qualify. Valve should have vetted the game before allowing it on the Steam Store. Steam basically allowed this bad actor to hack their users. Steam was the infection vector.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Yes, people do get hacked, rather than phished.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

Did You Download This Steam Game? Sorry, It's Windows Malware

The free-to-play game, PirateFi, infects users with malware that steals browser cookies, enabling the malware’s creator to hijack access to various online accounts.

Old news... https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/595140423952933550/

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/did-you-download-this-steam-game-sorry-its-windows-malware

- February 12, 2025

It seems to me that you simply don't understand the real definition of hacking. Did you ignore the part in that post which mentioned that several users got suspicious when their virus scanner alerted them?

This isn't hacking, people only fall victim to this due to their own sheer neglicence.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by Amaterasu:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

So by allowing it on the Steam store, Valve didn't due basic cybersecurity, and their customers got hacked as a result of that negligence on Valve's part, got it.

This is why I don't like interacting with you. You come to a conclusion and work your way back to it. Anything that is against your conclusion, you ignore. Here. Let me once again add back everything you removed.

Originally posted by Amaterasu:

Okay so I'm going to come in and entertain this for a moment. If you download a keylogger onto your computer, that isn't you getting hacked. That's you not doing the basic cybersecurity.

What people think of being hacked is someone pressing a button and all of the sudden, your computer and everything is theirs. If I was a hacker, and I wanted access to something you had, the last thing I'd be trying to hack into is your steam account to go around and buy and trade things. That's too much effort for too little gain even if it would be an effective method of money laundering. Except in order to properly money launder, the person would have their stuff back and had made a net zero in terms of financial change.

Hacking is not like in Hollywood where you just randomly type keys on your keyboard and all of the sudden, you have full access to someone's Steam account. In fact, no hacker worth a damn would target your steam account and start trading your stuff away. They'd target your payment information or your bank account. Steam Store Credit is worthless, meaning it would be a lot of effort for absolutely no gain.

So no, people don't get hacked. They trust things they shouldn't trust, refuse to do the most basic of cyber security, refuse to even let Windows Defender do its job and then complain that someone else gained access to their account.

Should see the moon landing stuff.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

This isn't hacking, people only fall victim to this due to their own sheer neglicence.

"Purchasing games from Steam and playing them is negligence." -Steam forum users, 2025

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

This isn't hacking, people only fall victim to this due to their own sheer neglicence.

"Purchasing games from Steam." -Steam forum users, 2025

Of course a forum user would most likely purchase games.

[ShelLuser]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

This isn't hacking, people only fall victim to this due to their own sheer neglicence.

"Purchasing games from Steam and playing them is negligence." -Steam forum users, 2025

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

Did you ignore the part in that post which mentioned that several users got suspicious when their virus scanner alerted them?

Yes, it's negligence if you don't apply any protection to your computers such as a virus scanner. And if you don't understand that simple aspect ... then you're bound to run into major issues.

Like trying to purchase free games ;)

[KarmaKrazi]

Originally posted by ꉔꏂ꒐꒒ꇙ:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

negligence on Valve's part, got it.

Did Amaterasu say that? or are you riding a stick a little too hard?

Nothing new for OP really

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

"Purchasing games from Steam and playing them is negligence." -Steam forum users, 2025

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

Did you ignore the part in that post which mentioned that several users got suspicious when their virus scanner alerted them?

Yes, it's negligence if you don't apply any protection to your computers such as a virus scanner. And if you don't understand that simple aspect ... then you're bound to run into major issues.

Like trying to purchase free games ;)

Don't pc come with windows security now? It used to be called Windows Defender. It should already have a virus scanner already downloaded unless there using a mac or linux op. Im not sure if they got any auto virus scanners on it.

It should be automatic with windows 10 and 11's Os at least.