TJark Hartmann From RaptgamersUnited.com expresses his opinion on the new Steam machine. In his own words: Ah, the Steam Machine. In case you aren’t in the loop, the steam machine is now the official name of Valve’s new product which was called ‘Steam Box’ before. I personally like the name Valve gave their new product. It’s got a nice ring to it. Now, when it comes to the actual Steam Machine.. not so much, and I’ll tell you about that later. But first, let’s get into what a Steam Machine is.
Valve gave a user Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for free as compensation for the long wait during their Steam Deck repair.
I had a similar experience when I initially pre-ordered my Deck. There was an issue during shipping and they offered me a customer service perk for the hassle and let me pick any game on Steam. It was super nice of them. I got a copy of Rime.
A LinkedIn post from Underdark AI made the discovery, stating that datasets are being sold for over $5,000 on a known black market forum.
No personal details, mostly account names, no passwords. Likely would need other account leaks to hope that someone reuses a password with a similar account name on another already leaked service. While a lot of users, the data is useless. Kind of notably by the $5k request for the data.
Plus, if you have 2FA enabled, then you were at zero risk anyway, from what I've read, Steam isn't even recommending password changes as it's apparently unnecessary.
@Christopher
Where are you getting that from?
The linked article above says, "The seller claims this is a “fresh” leak and says it includes usernames, passwords, two-factor SMS logs, message contents, metadata, delivery status, and other sensitive details." Which sure sounds like they might have a lot of other information. If this leak is legitimate I better stop hearing people falsely say PSN is the worst secured digital storefront (even though that hasn't been true for a very long time with far larger data breaches since 2011 all over the world including the Equifax breach which was several times larger).
@FinalFantasyFanatic
That seems true only if you use Steam Guard. If you opted for T2A via SMS the article suggests it's time to make the switch to Steam Guard and of course change your password.
From the credit URL: https://x.com/MellowOnline1...
The article doesn't do a good job of going into the updated detail, they just mention part of it.
Just because the seller claims something, doesn't make it true. If it truly contained that data, it would be worth way more than just $5k. SMS systems don't rely on getting passwords for accounts they're sending an SMS to, just the username, phone number, and timestamp info.
Update:
"Valve has now confirmed that “this was NOT a breach of Steam systems” and users do not need to change their passwords as a result. However, it continues to recommend that you set up the Steam Mobile authenticator for extra security."
https://store.steampowered....
The government needs a taskforce with serious fundung that can opporate across borders to go after cyber criminals.
It is getting out of hand and it is the regular citizens of the world that suffer the consequences of these hacks and breaches.
My fear is that if left unchecked, state sponsored hackers from corrupt or governents under sections may use this as a method of raising revenue at the expense of everyone else.
Not in this administration. If anything hes been dissolving existing task forces meant to protect consumers.
Why? They’d just use the funding to funnel hundred of millions of dollars into fake NGOs that then funnel it into democrat pockets while doing zero cyber criminal defence work.
Then if anybody tried to defund them it’d be a whole thing with the mainstream media claiming that there will be endless cyber attacks. NGOs would then fund protest groups to attack anybody that supports defunding the government’s cyber attack defence branch and then it would turn out it was also being used to stabilize or destabilize governments in other countries and overthrow elections to benefit America. Which is fine until they start using it on us again.
Let’s just not. Private companies who know what they’re doing (Valve) can deal with it
RIP USAID. God bless
It's not a may use this not we know state sponsored attacks do this already.
It's a global problem you couldn't have one government playing world police it would require joint collaboration with foreign governments and the problem is many laws have not kept pace with advancement of technology.
even then it's hard to say with certainty if an attack was a state sponsored attacks or a cybercriminal group operating outside of governments
remember when certain groups were saying PC gamers don’t want other subscriptions because it was not safe and steam was the spot lol.
@badz149
@pwnmaster3000
Have you guys actually read what was «leaked»? It was SMS messages from 3rd party provider (not from Steam itself) with one-time 2FA codes (that are active for 15 minutes). No Steam account details, access to an account or any of that jazz.
Let me quote official Steam response:
«The leak consisted of older text messages that included one-time codes that were only valid for 15-minute time frames and the phone numbers they were sent to. The leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data. Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of your Steam account, and whenever a code is used to change your Steam email or password using SMS, you will receive a confirmation via email and/or Steam secure messages.»
Source: https://store.steampowered....
The only bad thing about this is the phone numbers. But while that sucks, attacker doesn't know which Steam account this phone number belongs to. IMO, the only thing people should be rioting about is how unprotected the SMS are and the 3rd party service that was used by Steam. I'm all for punishing people who screwed up and/or lacked the security. But this is not it.
Why riot? They have nothing of value, can't even steal an account with the details they have, they would have to attempt a brute force attack, you can already do that with a Steam user's account name (or any account on any site) if you really wanted to spend the time and processing power to do it.
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Ah yes. Another article writing off the Steam Machine. Even though it's being built by a company that's centered 100% around gaming and has been enormously successful at pretty much everything they've done, some people don't see it happening because the controller is weird.
I see it as a PC in a box/console form. I can buy any other PC or build one and install steamOS for cheaper. It defeats the purpose of buying one.
This is basically an Openelec OS but for gaming.. I welcome it so stop bitching about the price of the actual pre build model, download the free OS, install it on your current PC and enjoy! Thats what I am going to do..
Don't forget Valve is a privet company with profit. They don't need to cater to investors. They won't make millions of Steam boxes day 1; let them sit on store shelf's. Valve will follow supply and demand. If the demand is high then will build more steam boxes. If the demand is low they will build less. So either way they won't be sweating bullets like the Big 3 if sales are slow because they have no stock prices to drop. Doom and gloom articals have zero effect on the company.
http://imgur.com/r/Steam/YJ...
The guys issues is with the controller not having enough buttons? It has any many buttons as any current controller and its design so that you that you need to move your thumbs around to those different buttons.
That image above shows exactly how its meant to work. Counting the track pads and touch screen it has a total of 16 buttons. That's more then what a 360 and PS3 controller have.