Steam Account stolen?!!

WingZero30 · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:40

Hi guys

I just logged into my steam account and went to game details. Surprisingly the whole games list has changed!!

I don't see a lot of games such as crysis etc which I bought couple of months ago.

What has happened?

Evilsod · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:41

Eh? If its your account how could it possibly be missing games?

You're looking at the wrong tab.

toString · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:46

QlimaxUK · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:47

QlimaxUK · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:47

toString said:

ahhh got there before me!

WingZero30 · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:48

Ok when I click on my profile and click on 'view all my games', the list is there. However when I click on View, game details, it gives a list of completely different games :confused:

Yesterday I clicked on steam calculator just to see what it is about and typed in my steam id but it cam with nothing.

On my profile it says ' summer camp sale' with achievements earned and prizes won.

WingZero30 · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:51

toString said:

QlimaxUK said:
ahhh got there before me!

Cheers guys

So what I was looking at before then lol?

toString · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:54

You were probably using the 'filter' to show the list of games you'd played recently, or ones you had installed. Not 'all games'.

Edrof · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:57

Lol panic over!

QlimaxUK · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:59

my steam ID is 'Qlimaxe' if you want to add me btw :cool:

KIA · 3 Jul 2011 at 20:43

I hope you have Steam Guard turned on. I wonder how much account theft has reduced since they introduced it.

toString · 3 Jul 2011 at 21:50

Must be loads, unless their email gets hacked too.. But the customer support team have less to do at least.

mjones1 · 3 Jul 2011 at 21:59

fluff said:
I hope you have Steam Guard turned on. I wonder how much account theft has reduced since they introduced it.

A large amount, i think it's a perfect way to keep our accounts safer.

Mr Krugga · 3 Jul 2011 at 22:08

fluff said:
I hope you have Steam Guard turned on. I wonder how much account theft has reduced since they introduced it.

Yeah, Steam Guard on Steam, 2 step verification in Gmail and something against keyloggers - chill bro :cool:

WingZero30 · 3 Jul 2011 at 22:17

yeah my account is protected by steam guard

So it's not possible to hack steam guard?

Kenai · 3 Jul 2011 at 22:20

WingZero30 said:
yeah my account is protected by steam guard

So it's not possible to hack steam guard?

Depends how lax you are with passwords and stuff

All it does is send an email to a nominated address before it lets the password be changed etc.

If you're lax with security and your email password is the same and they then log into that too with the password they've got for Steam via whatever means, then it will do nothing to stop them.

Mr Krugga · 3 Jul 2011 at 23:02

Kenai said:
Depends how lax you are with passwords and stuff

All it does is send an email to a nominated address before it lets the password be changed etc.

If you're lax with security and your email password is the same and they then log into that too with the password they've got for Steam via whatever means, then it will do nothing to stop them.

That's not all, you have to authorise every single PC you activate your account on

You get the unique key each time you try to install it on a new PC but Steam requests authorisation when you update the key components too.

wildman · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:10

is steam guard on by default ? I can;t remember ever turning it on. ALthough I haven't used a different PC to access steam from other than my main rig so maybe thats why I haven't noticed ?

arc@css · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:18

wildman said:
is steam guard on by default ? I can;t remember ever turning it on. ALthough I haven't used a different PC to access steam from other than my main rig so maybe thats why I haven't noticed ?

I think so.

In either case just go to 'view', then 'settings'. There you will see whether it's on or not.

orderoftheflame · 4 Jul 2011 at 11:34

wildman said:
is steam guard on by default ? I can;t remember ever turning it on. ALthough I haven't used a different PC to access steam from other than my main rig so maybe thats why I haven't noticed ?

It's on by default, but only if you've already validated your email address. There's some stuff in the Steam FAQ for checking it / turning it on and off etc if your not sure.