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    Brush-for-Hire sigur's Avatar
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    Steam Account possibly hacked/stolen, changed password - what else to do?

    Hi guys. Last night, after connecting to a russian counter-strike server (not the regular russian-like server. Imagine SUPER-russian. Custom ads on the walls, horrible intro music, all cyrillic letters etc.), all of a sudden I got disconnected from the steam network. Weird. I took it for a natural sign to quit (it was late already) and go to bed. This morning when i got up and tried to log into steam it said "This account is logged in somewhere else already". "oh ****", says me, log in and change my password. I got no credit card informaton linked to my steam account, nor any other personal data apart from an e-mail adress. I'm not sure if my steam account actually was taken but it almost seems like it due to how Steam told me that I was logged in somewhere else.

    It looks like everything is in order with my account, nothing has been changed as far as I can see. I'm scanning my system for mal-/spyware and viruses for good measure. Is there anything else I should do to be on the safe(r) side of things?

    Many thanks.

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    Re: Steam Account possibly hacked/stolen, changed password - what else to do?

    I wouldn't worry too much. Mine has said this a couple of time and it caused me to panic. Turns out it was something to do with Steam starting on boot and then trying to open a second instance (rather than just opening the existing one.).
    Keep a close eye on the account for a couple of days but I'm sure it'll all be fine
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    Re: Steam Account possibly hacked/stolen, changed password - what else to do?

    Alright, cheers. I figure it's just that as I was dropped form the network the night before so it probably is that. A friend of mine reported that similar things happen to his steam as well if it doesn't close cleanly.

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    Re: Steam Account possibly hacked/stolen, changed password - what else to do?

    Avoid that kind of websites though, they're literally crawling with trojans and stuff, you're asking for trouble.

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