Steam Account Password Recovery Fixed After Streamers Lose Accounts

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A very easy way for people to gain access to your Steam account has been fixed after multiple Twitch streamers found that they were locked out of their account. As reported by ryugarulz over on Reddit, streamers Summit1G, Phant0ml0rd, Goldglove and JoshOG, NeoGAF user Lucifon, and YouTuber Elm Hoe (who created the video below). Thankfully the simple hack has now been fixed.

As shown below, someone only needs to know your Steam account name to accomplish this. They go into the logon page for Steam, get to the option that you have forgotten your Steam password, click the option to send a code to your email, then instead of entering in anything just click continue and you can access the account and change the password without ever having to type in a code.



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Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/07/26/steam-account-password-recovery-hack-fixed-after-streamers-lose-account-access/

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SkittlePosted:

I'm not surprised this was fixed as quick as it was, this was a very big security flaw

OwenPosted:

Nice to see this fixed, don't go on steam anymore

MickersPosted:

Nice to see it fixed so quickly.

PinkRibbonPosted:

This is crazy, Well I am glad this has been fixed and it must stink for people who have lost their accounts.

DanielPosted:

This is mad but im glad its all been fixed, i wondered why i got a few password reset emails.
i guess now ive found out why.

VauxhallPosted:

I lost my password couple of weeks ago and wondering why it wasnt sending me a reset password email

RipPosted:

That is so crazy lucky they fixed it.

EarnPosted:

I heard about this yesterday, it's crazy that it was so simple to do and makes me scared about what other ways there are off doing this. The amount of people who must have had there password changed because of this is insane!

SagePosted:

RepPower Wow, the hack was so simple. I would have been pissed off if it were to happen to me.


This isnt even considered a hack its like a simple work around. But there should be no way that something this simple got past valve i mean they are a multi million dollar company. They are prob going to get hid hard by this.

TreyarchedPosted:

This is a bigger screw up than Valve adding paid mods to Steam. GJ Valve I didn't think you could screw up any harder.


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