Valve has addressed Steam's security breach reported earlier this week, a leak which allegedly involved over 89 million user records. Fortunately, it apparently isn't as bad as it initially seemed.

Twilio has denied in a statement for BleepingComputer that it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be holding over 89 million Steam user records with one-time access codes. The threat ...

The data appears to be originating from Twilio, a third-party service that Steam uses to send two-factor authentication (2FA) codes via SMS. Independent video game journalist Mellow_Online1 ...

It may be the case that an intermediary contracts Twilio in Portugal (and perhaps other regions) to send Steam-related texts. As an aside, this is why changing your passwords is always a ...

Sounds bad, right? Except when Twilio, a third-party service thought to provide 2FA text message codes for Steam, was asked for comment, the company told BleepingComputer it had not found any ...

However, Twilio, the cloud communications provider speculated to be the source of the SMS logs, has directly denied involvement — and Steam doesn't use Twilio. The data itself raises red flags.

and the company does provide one-time passcode services – yet Twilio denied that it had been breached. And now, Steam itself has confirmed that it wasn’t hacked either. You may like Co-op ...

some people are now trying to say that the above indicates that this is now all fake news. The only thing the above indicates is that Twilio is not the source of the breach - that's it.

MellowOnline1 suggested that the leak came not from Valve Corporation—Steam's owner—itself, but from Twilio, a platform that provides two-factor authentication (2FA) for apps like Steam via ...

Twilio, a platform used by businesses to engage ... security messages they didn't explicitly request. Valve added that Steam users should regularly check their account security and to set up ...

Instead, it was an external service that Steam relies on that was impacted. Those new reports showed some SMS logs that are used in two-factor authentication. It was later revealed that Twilio ...