Steam 2FA codes allegedly got leaked. If you use 2FA with your phone number, turn it off NOW and secure your account.

Confirmed false. See comment.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
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    11 hours ago

    I’m personally of the opinion that a separate app sign in is okay as an additional measure, if the app is actually useful. For example, GitHub does this well - they support TOTP, and the mobile app is okay. Steam mobile app is useful, but TOTP option as a fallback would be nice.

    Maybe the most useless thing I have on this front is the Blizzard app, really. The app is not particularly useful for me, I’d rather just use TOTP, if they had the option.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      11 hours ago

      Like I said I’m torn on that front. I only ever use the Steam app for QR login and TFA. Their grand design was that you’d be monitoring it as a marketplace back when they had these protoNFT ideas of how big their hats and trading cards were going to get.

      But I never cared about those and they never put enough effort on the game store side of the app for it to be a better alternative than making purchases on the PC app instead, so… Would it be worth it to use a general TOTP app instead of a QR code for first time login and transaction validation? I’d say very likely, considering I already have a couple of those for a bunch of other services.