My Steam on Windows got hacked and I lose 7750rs.

Midhun said:
It's far worse than what the previous commenter was suggesting: there's no mfa confirmation for purchases regardless of purchase value eg: If the hacker purchased an item for $500, they still wouldn't get asked for mfa.

Unless you're going to examine the network requests going out of your system, you should format and reinstall windows. Considering this optional is a mistake.
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Yep I already made my mind to for clean install.
 
Have you recently come across people messaging you to join FACEIT to be part of their team or vote for their team or anything similar?
I would suggest you to set your inventory to private so that folks you play CS with wont be able to see your cases.
 
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Blue Leaf said:
Have you recently come across people messaging you to join FACEIT to be part of their team or vote for their team or anything similar?
I would suggest you to set your inventory to private so that folks you play CS with wont be able to see your cases.
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Used to play faceit not recently and yes i have just made my inventory privet after this.
 
Happened to me too they bought dota2 items Steam support said they cant do anything Get over it its because of trozen/miner installed from pirated games.Revoke steam api key for next time
 
Even my PCs steam has got hacked in 2019 and steam said that it's a local hacker not an international one but restored my steam account after I gave them proof of purchase of my last transaction or steam game.
 
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mo0n said:
so steam isnt gonna do anything? Im new but they bought game items right? so how do they profit from it?
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if your Steam Account get hacked and they change credentials you will need some proof to prove that you own that account to get back. But if their purpose to get money from it they will sell your inventory and buy cheap stuff from their own acc from your account at high price so convert money from item. In this case steam wont help because as per their rule once item sold through steam market can not be refund. For selling high price inventory you need to approve it from steam guard assuming there is no vulnerability on steam mobile app. What best can you do is just dont keep balance on steam wallet, as Steam wont send any confirmation notification by any means when you/theif buy something with steam balance.
hellblazer33 said:
Happened to me too they bought dota2 items Steam support said they cant do anything Get over it its because of trozen/miner installed from pirated games.Revoke steam api key for next time
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yes but i did not have any steam api setup and i dont use pireted game, only play cs.
 
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mo0n said:
so steam isnt gonna do anything? Im new but they bought game items right? so how do they profit from it?
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no. the scammer listed his trash items on steam for 100x priced and used OPs account to buy those items which basically transferred his steam balance to theirs. This is a new fear unlocked for me. I have like 12k steam wallet balance as I am cashing out my cs2 skins.
 
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nikola said:
if your Steam Account get hacked and they change credentials you will need some proof to prove that you own that account to get back. But if their purpose to get money from it they will sell your inventory and buy cheap stuff from their own acc from your account at high price so convert money from item. In this case steam wont help because as per their rule once item sold through steam market can not be refund. For selling high price inventory you need to approve it from steam guard assuming there is no vulnerability on steam mobile app. What best can you do is just dont keep balance on steam wallet, as Steam wont send any confirmation notification by any means when you/theif buy something with steam balance.

yes but i did not have any steam api setup and i dont use pireted game, only play cs.
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Thanks, that clears things up a lot.
So basically, they dump your inventory by trading with their own accounts and there's no way to reverse it because Steam sees it as a legit sale.
Still, I feel like in cases where trash items were bought for super inflated prices, it’s pretty obvious it’s a scam. I know Steam support is hit or miss, but you should keep messaging them,maybe if enough pressure is there, they’ll at least review it properly
 
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Well, no hackers screwing me over, anytime soon, especially after this sad incident.

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Do you download games or any other form of media/software from pirated websites by any chance? A friend of mine suffered similar issue with someone selling their inventory for dirt cheap, it happened twice within a week. We were not able to find how their account got hacked. We suspect that it is something to do with him downloading pirated games from shady websites.
 
Shadowfell said:
Do you download games or any other form of media/software from pirated websites by any chance? A friend of mine suffered similar issue with someone selling their inventory for dirt cheap, it happened twice within a week. We were not able to find how their account got hacked. We suspect that it is something to do with him downloading pirated games from shady websites.
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Nope I haven’t downloaded pirated game or traded on steam with anyone. I had 7k steam balance so no reason for downloading pirated games.
i got steam support reply generic automated one “ we cant do anything for refunds blablablah, change password, etc” and i was expecting that.
Most of people blaming me that somehow you let hackers to control your pc, dont blame steam for that and laugh on you assuming you are dumb but when this will happen to them only then they will know. (Steam even dont sent me a mail or notification for buying 81 item when I haven’t traded/bought/sold a single item for last 1.5 years). I know money is gone and I’m not only victim of it.
I review my entire firewall log, inbound/outbound rules, event manager and all of services and found nothing suspicious. Still wondering how the f it happened.
Currently I have clean wipes my drive and install fresh os and installing other stuff. Its pain in ass to do all this stuff again. Going through every window setting for privacy and removing bloatware from windows.
 
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One of the reasons people buy games is due to concerns about malware and viruses. However, Steam's silence on many cases like this raises questions about their security, making me feel that even pirated versions can be more trustworthy.
 
Dhanush said:
One of the reasons people buy games is due to concerns about malware and viruses. However, Steam's silence on many cases like this raises questions about their security, making me feel that even pirated versions can be more trustworthy.
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Maybe people trust fitgirl repacks for pireted games. Only thing i want is ban that steam account that did this stuff i gave them details but I don’t think they will do it. Because according to their rules he didn’t do anything wrong or break steam rules.
 
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My account had gotten hacked too and the hacker had even changed the name. I contacted steam support through a form, link is hard to find I dont remember how I found it, (You can also email them on ther support id) and attached screenshots for proof of ownership. A person responded and after a few back and forth emails, Boom. Account restored.
 
nikola said:
Maybe people trust fitgirl repacks for pireted games. Only thing i want is ban that steam account that did this stuff i gave them details but I don’t think they will do it. Because according to their rules he didn’t do anything wrong or break steam rules.
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Unless they have hard evidence of a hack then they pretty much didn't break any rules so that is expected. It is an obvious scam but you can't be banning people without proving it either. I am not gonna act like I read the whole TOS but that seems like a normal outcome to me. Hopefully you can get something out of this or at least figure out how they did it.
 
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