Steam being hacked?

Soldato
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The thing is, I got an email asking me to enter the steam guard code on my email, but it appears to be unread...at 2pm today

Just got home and steam showed me that msg in my OP when it first logged in.

But the account access was authorised?

I've changed my steam password now anyway.
 
Man of Honour
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Do you use same credentials for steam and kickstarter? rumours that the stolen password hashes were cracked from that.

You can mark emails as unread after reading them so that doesn't necessarily mean anything but does seem strange.
 
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If it says it was authorized it means they have access to your email, because they entered the Steam Guard code correctly. Emails can be reflagged as unread by most email programs so get changing those passwords and run some scans.

Usually they steal your Game items (TF2 Hats, CS:GO Guns, ETC), trading cards, backrounds, and emotes. Or just generally carp on you with a VAC ban on games.
 
Don
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Use a crazy password for your email.

Use a different crazy password for Steam.


Very good site here for testing passwords.
https://howsecureismypassword.net/


^Personally, I'd only type in something 'similar' to my password into a site like that, but you get the idea. Good for testing your old passwords to see how insecure they are.


-My email password (edited a bit for the site)
It would take a desktop PC about
6 decillion years
to crack your password
 
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