Now there’s a new security process
There’s a real problem concerning Steam account security. For years, hackers have targeted Steam users to gain unauthorized access to their accounts and clear out their inventory of items. It’s a familiar story, but it’s an ever-growing one, too.
In a new post aboutsecurity and trading, Valve reveals that the issue has gotten so bad that approximately 77,000 accounts are compromised each month. The trading system is mostly to blame, so Valve’s employing security protocols to tighten up the ship.
As of today, Valve has three new measures for users who don’t want to use two-step authentication. As described by Valve, they are:
The even easier answer would be to mandate two-step authentication from everyone. That’s not a road Valve wants to go down, though. The company says that it thought about it (and doing away with trading altogether), but it wants to do everything it can to keep from putting steps between the users and their desired results. So, these three new measures are the compromise for people who are most at-risk because they won’t protect themselves.
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