Thread: Steam chat?????????? WTH

Originally Posted by cyaNide

Originally Posted by Anti-Squeaker

so your brother is ryaan?

No. His brother is Buzzkill, in dB4d. "Ryaan" hacked Buzzkill's account.

ooooooh! Gotcha. Man, we have a shitload of accounts being hacked dont we?

edit: I cant spell tonight for some reason.

Originally Posted by Anti-Squeaker

Originally Posted by cyaNide

Originally Posted by Anti-Squeaker

so your brother is ryaan?

No. His brother is Buzzkill, in dB4d. "Ryaan" hacked Buzzkill's account.

ooooooh! Gotcha. Man, we have a shitload of accounts being hacked dont we?

edit: I cant spell tonight for some reason.

Yes we do. >,< Steams ways of protecting accounts is terrible...

well, I don't wanna be "that guy", but Steam says never to give out your password to anyone for a reason.

Originally Posted by cyaNide

Steams ways of protecting accounts is terrible...

No, it really isn't.

For example, my steam password is between 15-20 characters long. And I don't mean just alpha-numeric.

Add to that even if someone guessed, brute-forced, hell even if I GAVE someone my steam account password they couldn't do jack with the account.

You know why? Because they'd have to also know my Email address and password for that. It's called Steam Verified Accounts.

Seriously, everyone needs to go do it:

Originally Posted by Arreo

Steam added some new security measures that greatly improve account security.

Why should I verify my email address?

Verifying your email address with Steam improves the security of your Steam Account. Once you've verified your email address with Steam, both your Steam Account password and access to your email account are required in order to make any changes to your Steam Account credentials, such as your password, secret question and answer, and contact email address. This helps further protect your Steam Account from being stolen by a potential phisher.

How do I verify my email address?

Verifying your email address with Steam is a simple process:

1. Right-click on the Steam icon in the System Tray and select Settings or press the Settings button in Steam's File menu.
2. Click the Verify email address button.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
4. You should then receive an email message from Steam Support.
5. Click the unique link provided in this email message to finish verifying your email address. The web page which then launches will confirm your success.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_...5151-RUAS-1543

So... about the only thing my steam account has to fear is a keylogger. But that isn't even an issue because I never type my email password, I copy paste it from an encrypted file...

Hackers have found a bypass past it or something because how did the guy get Buzzkill's account? The pass should be the same right?

Originally Posted by Xtreme

He didn't even know there were jackasses like him existed. This is a really good lesson for him and not just in here, but trusting others.

I know EXACTLY where he is. I was there once. My first account got hacked... I was in shock. :3

Originally Posted by cyaNide

Hackers have found a bypass past it or something because how did the guy get Buzzkill's account? The pass should be the same right?

Or you haven't made your account a "Verified" one.

In Steam go File-> Settings and look at the account.

It should look like this:


If it says "Unverified" there then you need to take the steps that I posted to get it verified.

Thanks Arreo, I realized mine was unverified.

Yea thanks, i also realized that mine was unverified.