In case you’ve been living under a rock, the TL;DR is that over the past couple of days, the PC gaming community has been shaken by widespread reports claiming that 89 million Steam accounts were allegedly hacked.
First reported by Underdark.ai and later amplified by Twitter user Mellow_Online1 and gaming news outlet VG247, the rumor alleged that a hacker known as Machine1337 had breached Steam and was selling a dataset of over 89 million user records for $5,000.
It was claimed that internal vendor data of affected users had been compromised, raising fears about the security of bank accounts linked to Steam. Adding to the alarm, both Mellow_Online1 and Underdark later said that the leaked sample featured real-time 2FA SMS logs routed via Twilio, including message contents, delivery status, metadata, and routing costs, further fueling the panic.
