For my friends on Steam (hacked account)

Thank you for the PSA and I'm so sorry. Usually Valve's actually fairly good about sorting these things out.

<3

You've most likely clicked on a dodgy link sent by a friend and entered your details on a site that looks like steam but was not.

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/Gkf1X/easy-way-to-spot-avoid-steam-login-phishing-website may ring some bells for you.

Hopefully you'll get your account back soon and I have reported you via steam as I got that message.

I was just about to write you a comment since I got messaged by your account with some fishy looking promise of AAA games for free. Sorry to hear that happened to you. I'm crossing my fingers that you can get it fixed asap.

Sorry to hear this... and checking it out, I've just got the message, which anyway would seem quite suspicious to me. To be on safe site, I'm blocking you, until you confirm, that you were able to recover it. I hope, that they will deal with it soon and that you will not suffer any serious losses.

Unhappy thing, this. I hope it gets sorted soonest.

your account offered me $200 and i took them ^^

Hopefully you'll get it back. Couldn't comment on your profile because comments are disabled (maybe they were turned off after the take over? ) so I was expecting you would show up here with a post..

did you activate 2FA? just to make sure 2FA still fine
it's a hastle to login but i suppose it's safer

What ??
I can't "get a free random game (GTA V, PUBG, CSGO and more) on [...] for new users, full legit and no deposit" ? ...

Good luck with the steam support

If you still have access to your account, change the password

I'm so glad to see that you know that your account has been compromised. I unfriended your when I saw the phishing link, but will be happy to re-add you once you get your account back!

Yeah got that yesterday so was waiting for a post like this. Hopefully you get it back soon
Oh and its even got a post about it as well. Correct site and everything except i wasnt told to use a promo code just that i can win these expensive games i dislike

En effet j'ai reçu un message en anglais de ta part, avec un lien, j'ai de suite compris que ton compte avait été piraté. Je n'ai bien sûr rien cliqué, j'ai juste fermé le message.
J'espère que tu vas pouvoir tout récupérer sans problème.

So sorry this happened, hope you get your account back soon!

The activity feed (Aug 19) showed that

Ylthin played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for the first time.

I saw this and thought it was odd, not your usual type of game. Then I got that message with the link and knew sth was wrong.

Oh yes, got a pretty shady message from "you" yesterday. It was very obviously a scam so it occured to me that your acc was hacked :(
I wish you the best of luck getting your account back, like someone mentioned before, Valve's usually able to help with that, so fingers crossed!

I had my account hacked a few years ago - they essentially social engineered their way through getting my email pw reset through my email provider. Anything up with your email if you don't think it's login? (I also didn't have 2FA back then though)

Happy you were able to get it reported quickly though. Always worry about this kind of thing. Thanks to genkicoll I found your post here. Wasn't sure how else to reach out so I posted in AEG and AWG.
PS. I also removed you after the message and reported as a stolen account. So if you wish please do re-add once you get back !

As a few other people I have removed you for now. Feel free to readd when you get your account back (hopefully soon). I would double check that history of websites and think if you maybe used the Steam overlay browser. Because considering you had 2FA and there is no reports of a huge mass of Steam accounts compromised (aka probably not something on Steam side of things) there is most likely something there.

Looks like your friend gived his credentials to the scammers.

I missed that we became friends - remembered it now... when I saw I that I one one two

Maybe you wanna add how to lock your account in your post as a useful reminder for others

Wishing you Good Luck

While looking at the login history.
https://help.steampowered.com/ja/accountdata/SteamLoginHistory
I hope your account will be restored soon.

Damn I hope it gets worked out asap.

These people are really aggressive about this. They most likely would have tried to sell your account to someone else before you locked it.

Best thing to have done is to keep the last key you activated. In my case last December (even though I KNOW I did NOT click on any links), I kept an HB key I used a day before. So I had proof that the account was mine. Got it back in about 24 hours.

I wish you luck.

When this had happend to me several months ago, I could tell the support the exact time when it happened (I got emails in quick succession about credentials being changed at that point of time), along with a PayPal transaction id from the last thing i bought from their store directly.
Luckily their support was quick to help and got me my account back without any damages.

Fingers crossed for a quick and painless recovery.

Did you accepted a friend request. Probably a low level user (>10)? or if you're using family share and sharer got hacked?