Are Steam Accounts/Steam itself being hacked at unprecedented rates?

[turnbullTeRRoR]

Man here the last 2-3 weeks my friends list has been hit up and down with hacks.   I have had 3 friends changed there names to  " DONT OPEN THAT LINK I SENT YOU"     Someone's grabbed an account and sent a nasty suprise link with all sorts of malicious  goodies for your pc.    This morning upon awaking  I noticed I had a steam message.......from someone I've never seen before.   I read the message.  4 seperate texts with a link....all obviously  scripted about trading......           So I don't recognize the name.  Hmm   view aliases .........none......hmmmmmm whats up STEAM ?    you unsecure piece of pooh

 

 

How can someone  I dont know / not added to my friends list Message me.         Thats all.

[Preacher]

That poor Nigerian just wants to give you money

[turnbullTeRRoR]

Hey man thats a Nigerian Prince to  you!

[stutters]

Doesn't answer your question but still a friendly PSA...

 

Friends don't let friends not use two factor authentication. 

 

Enable it for steam:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1266-OAFV-8478#steamguard

[turnbullTeRRoR]

Mines already activated.  

[stutters]

Why you gotta lie? We're all friends here. 

[turnbullTeRRoR]

Nah  really I've been having to bounce from work PC to home PC to moms house PC so I'm very familiar  with the double auth. process.

[stutters]

Uh huh.

[san`]

I get scammers adding me daily. It's fun.

[turnbullTeRRoR]

yes but this was different........ one I ignored  actually got through and was messaging me...

[Biggs]

A couple links were sent to me from people that haven't messaged me in a long time.  Something like "Hey check out this new item I got: *Here'sALinkThat'sObviouslyATrap*"

 

I assume going to this page is going to compromise my account.  Kind of a phishing scam on steam?

[DiXie]

Could be going around, I have one friend on my friend's list whose name is now "DONT OPEN THAT LINK I SENT YOU".

[walkingCat]

Apparently, I don't have valuables for scammers to try me out. Or I have good people on my list.

[BlackYoshi]

If someone wants to trade and asks you to click any link at all I automatically delete them.  Unless I talk to you on the regular I'm not clicking any kind of link ever.  Do this and never get hacked, boom I solved the issue.

[Kuma]

People uses some scripts or programs, which allow them to scan peoples backpacks. It's even easier to those, who trade a lot as csgo lounge or tf2outpost.

 

They started with fake steam community links, as broken grammar : stemcommunity,...etc etc, then with broken tf2outpost link. Now they're sending fake puush links, tinyurl links and even mumble links, to download latest version.

[TheFirstMonk]

Not to be off-topic, but I've been friend requested by about half a dozen accounts by people I don't know with a Steam level between 0-3 and no profile/information (usually). As a general rule, I'd suggest blocking these in addition to the above posted advice.

[samurai nightling]

Kind of funny, as I'm not getting any of these random invites to friend or trade. I don't know what kind of circles you all are frequenting.

Edited November 30, 2014 by samurai nightling