77,000 Steam accounts are hijacked every month

Now I don't wonder anymore the number of 'I have been hacked / scammed' threads at steam forums. People should just learn to be a bit skeptical and not to click every link / accept everything immediately :(

Now if you get hacked, the hackers can delete your games. yay

Recently we've seen the community have a good discussion about the pros and cons of trade holds. We thought we'd walk through how we decided to implement them, in the hopes that it helps you understand why they're absolutely necessary.

Then a long wall of text follows that explains how is it important to use two factor authentication (which happens to be only available for iOS and Android users, but somehow they forgot to point that out). In other words, Valve failed to see the other side of the coin which was I believe mostly discussed (so no pros really, mostly cons because people mostly took this news negatively as far as I know), in fact I suspect Valve did NOT really care about what people think at all and the fact that many of us don't have the latest generations of Android or iPhone, they simply pretended like the community didn't say anything negative and continue to push their authenticator down our throats forcibly...

Maybe it's the very same account which is hacked 77k times :D

That's ok for me, I'm using their 2-factor authentication and don't see that as a problem. I'm using it on Bitstamp for years and just feel safer. I understand the problem for Valve, they are a honey pot for hackers. Not cool.

Also it teaches us that Valve cares about the value of items on the market and they want them as high as possible.

Not my fault 77,000 retards get hacked monthly.

Wow, there are more idiots out there than I thought.

ripperino

What's so hard about not adding randoms and not clicking links. Also if they talk in a script it's a bot or if they have really bad English it's a sign too.