Valve denies system breach amid claims of 89 million leaked Steam accounts
Claims emerged that data from 89 million Steam accounts had been leaked. Operator Valve denied that its systems had been breached or that account information had been leaked, and said passwords were safe. The leaked data was described as phone numbers, and the claimed number of accounts has not been confirmed as the actual extent of the damage.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Valve
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Phone numbers leaked; extent of damage unconfirmed
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- Other countries
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Timeline
- Valve issued a statement on claims that data from 89 million Steam accounts had been leaked.
- Valve denied the account data leak claims and said passwords were safe.
- Valve stated that there had been no breach of Steam's systems.
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