Steam Data Leak: Valve says nothing to worry about and gives this advice to users

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Yesterday, news broke about an alleged compromise of Steam, the major PC gaming platform. The data leak supposedly included information about 89 million Steam users.

Valve published a statement on the official website about the discovered data. Here is what the company revealed:

The details:

• The data consists of old SMS messages used for two-factor authentication.
  
• It includes one-time codes and the phone numbers the messages were sent to.
  
• Valve says that Steam was not breached.
  
• The investigation is ongoing.
  

Valve confirms that the "leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data". Furthermore, the one-time codes are valid for 15 minutes only, which means that they have expired and can't be used for authentication anymore.

In other words: The data includes phone numbers of current or past Steam users and information that the accounts used SMS verification at one point in time for authentication.

No need to worry, says Valve

Valve says that Steam users do not need to change their passwords or phone numbers as a response to the data leak. It suggsts, however, that Steam users should be suspicious about any security message that they receive that was not triggered by the user's action.

Users may check their account security on Steam on the official website.

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