No, your Steam info isn't being sold on the dark web: Valve confirms the Steam leak was just a bunch of old, harmless texts and "you do not need to change your passwords"

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Valve says there's no current need to change your Steam password despite repo꧃rts of a♔ recent data leak.

For so♐me context, alarm bells were sounded on Friday after reported that up to 89 million Steam accounts had been compromised, pote♛ntially leaving roughly two-thirds of active Steam users at risk of having private information like passwords and payment details sold to the dark web. Pretty scary right?

assuring that, while a leak of some form did occur, it only contained a bunch of old text messages with one-time validation codes, which expire after 15 minutes. The only information that can be extracted from these texts is the phone numbers they were sent to, and there isn't a whole lot anyone can do with that information alone.

"The leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data," Valve said. "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 p🍰assword using SMS, you will receive a confirmation via email and/or Ste🍌am secure messages."

The initial, and in hinds🥀ight overblown, warning of a Steam leak seems to have originated from a LinkedIn post by user Underdark.ai, but it didn't seem to get widespread attention until Twitter user shared ♈it on Friday.

Valve said in no uncertain terms that "♛you do not need to change your passwords or phone numbers as a result of this event. It is a good reminder to treat any account security messages that you have not explicitly requested as suspiciouꦜs."

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