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I don't know what to do with this information
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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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Can you provide your source (no pun intended)?
https://www.troyhunt.com/experimenting-with-stealer-logs-in-have-i-been-pwned/
That would mean you have a virus on your PC not that Steam DB has been breached, right?
If there is a virus on someone's pc, the antimalware software would notice it, not have i been pwned. Idk who bought this bs up. Steamdb WAS breached. Not my pc was compromised, but Steam
I have not read the whole article because I'm to lazy but here is a picture from the article you posted. Antimalware is not perfect and cannot detect every threat on your PC. There have been cases of game developer accounts being hacked and then updates being pushed through those hacked accounts including stealer malware / spyware which would then be installed on your PC, which is not a Steam Database breach but a Steam Developer Account Hack. Maybe Steam should have stopped those updates IDK I'm no malware expert. EDIT: Btw. the last Steam Database breach I could find in my 2 mins of searching the web was in 2015.
I think you missed the entire premise of the article you linked - the "stealer logs" mean someone logged into your account on a system that had been breached (infected with malware), and the "stealer" "logged" those credentials.
Also, SteamDB and Steam are two very different things. SteamDB is an independent third party offering that just tracks Steam data via their API.