Yeah. Check the timestamp.

How would I find that? I did a quick Google search and they said there's no way to check login attempts

Originally posted by Chdonga:

How would I find that? I did a quick Google search and they said there's no way to check login attempts

It didn't say on the notification?

Basically, if you got a notification, it means someone successfully logged in with your password, but was stopped by the authenticator.

You may want to change the passwords of your steam account and/or emails.

Yikes. It just happened to me a second time.

I carry my laptop on me and I leave Steam on in the background. When I walked into a coffee shop Steam sent me the verification code. Could it be my laptop trying to log into Steam through unverified networks?

Originally posted by Chdonga:

Yikes. It just happened to me a second time.

I carry my laptop on me and I leave Steam on in the background. When I walked into a coffee shop Steam sent me the verification code. Could it be my laptop trying to log into Steam through unverified networks?

no

In any case I've changed my password again and I'm running malware scans on all my PCs. Hopefully I don't have a keylogger.

Edit: I did a scan and there are no threats found. I've logged into tons of non-Steam accounts with no issues either. I never use browser Steam so there's no way I could've gotten phished. It must've been a brute force app that found out my password.

Originally posted by XIExplicit:

Originally posted by Chdonga:

In any case I've changed my password again and I'm running malware scans on all my PCs. Hopefully I don't have a keylogger.

Edit: I did a scan and there are no threats found. I've logged into tons of non-Steam accounts with no issues either. I never use browser Steam so there's no way I could've gotten phished. It must've been a brute force app that found out my password.

Having the same issue did changing your password solve the issue?

Geez. Talk about a necrobump lmfao.
But yep, changing my password way back then stopped the issue. My most reasonable guess was that someone managed to brute force guess my password but got held up by the Steam Guard. Just make a more secure password and thank Gabe for 2FA.

Originally posted by Chdonga:

My most reasonable guess was that someone managed to brute force guess my password...

Brute forcing isn't feasible considering after X tries, the person is locked out and on a cooldown for too many tries. It would take more than your life expectancy to even brute into some of the easiest passwords.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Chdonga:

My most reasonable guess was that someone managed to brute force guess my password...

Brute forcing isn't feasible considering after X tries, the person is locked out and on a cooldown for too many tries. It would take more than your life expectancy to even brute into some of the easiest passwords.

Maybe they got it from a data breach. Not sure if '17 was a big year for breaches but I know that I had a bad habit of using the same password on most accounts around the time that this happened.

Originally posted by Chdonga:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Brute forcing isn't feasible considering after X tries, the person is locked out and on a cooldown for too many tries. It would take more than your life expectancy to even brute into some of the easiest passwords.

Maybe they got it from a data breach. Not sure if '17 was a big year for breaches but I know that I had a bad habit of using the same password on most accounts around the time that this happened.

Nope.

Is the trick how to scan the guard code, instead of type it.

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.