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          3 days ago

          That would mean you have a virus on your PC not that Steam DB has been breached, right?

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            2 days ago

            If there is a virus on someone’s pc, the antimalware software would notice it, not have i been pwned. Idk who bought this bs up. Steamdb WAS breached. Not my pc was compromised, but Steam

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              2 days ago

              I have not read the whole article because I’m to lazy but here is a picture from the article you posted. Antimalware is not perfect and cannot detect every threat on your PC. There have been cases of game developer accounts being hacked and then updates being pushed through those hacked accounts including stealer malware / spyware which would then be installed on your PC, which is not a Steam Database breach but a Steam Developer Account Hack. Maybe Steam should have stopped those updates IDK I’m no malware expert. EDIT: Btw. the last Steam Database breach I could find in my 2 mins of searching the web was in 2015.

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                4 hours ago

                That didn’t happen in my case, since i do not update my games, as they are mostly downloaded from fitgirl repacks

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              I think you missed the entire premise of the article you linked - the “stealer logs” mean someone logged into your account on a system that had been breached (infected with malware), and the “stealer” “logged” those credentials.

              Also, SteamDB and Steam are two very different things. SteamDB is an independent third party offering that just tracks Steam data via their API.

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                4 hours ago

                Steam notifies about every login attempt and 2FA is also set. No way they could do that without me noticing. Haveibeenpwned only reports central database leaks, not user-side leaks

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                  Nasty stuff, stealer logs. I’ve written about them and loaded them into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) before but just as a recap, we’re talking about the logs created by malware running on infected machines. You know that game cheat you downloaded? Or that crack for the pirated software product? Or the video of your colleague doing something that sounded crazy but you thought you’d better download and run that executable program showing it just to be sure? That’s just a few different ways you end up with malware on your machine that then watches what you’re doing and logs it, just like this:

                  These logs all came from the same person and each time the poor bloke visited a website and logged in, the malware snared the URL, his email address and his password. It’s akin to a criminal looking over his shoulder and writing down the credentials for every service he’s using, except rather than it being one shoulder-surfing bad guy, it’s somewhat larger than that.

                  Seriously, read the article you posted. YOU probably attempted to log in and the virus on YOUR computer you seem to be in HEAVY denial about captured your info. You’re lucky the 2FA probably prevented the people who are are logging activity from your PC from accessing your Steam account.

                  The article you posted clearly defines stealer logs, and the email you screenshot clearly says your info is in a stealer log breach - I don’t know what more to say. You clearly have all the information you need, you just don’t want to process it.

                  YOU LOGGED INTO STEAM ON AN INFECTED COMPUTER AND ARE PROBABLY STILL USING THAT SYSTEM. YOUR COMPUTER HAS A VIRUS.