89 million Steam accounts reportedly leaked. Change your pas...

89 million Steam accounts reportedly leaked. Change your password now.

Mashable SEA | 2025-05-14 15:12

And keep an eye out for suspicious activity or phishing scams. The account details of 89 million Steam users have reportedly been hacked. Although how the breach happened is unclear, this is a good time to change your password and enable two-factor authentication. The past Sunday, cybersecurity firm Underdark posted on LinkedIn about a data breach. That post was then picked up and widely spread by gaming-focused X user Mellow_Online1, as reported by tech outlet XDA. According to Underdark's post, "a threat actor going by Machine1337 posted on a well-known dark web forum claiming to have breached Steam, offering a dataset of over 89 million user records for $5,000." This claim from Machine1337 reportedly also included a Telegram contact, a link to sample data, and internal vendor data "indicating deeper access." The breach was believed to have come from a third party service, not dir...

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