TL;DR: remove manufacturer bloatware the first time you fire up your PC. Don't listen to OP's advice about mobile auth.
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understand what your talking about before you comment its in the bio you fool its unremovable seriously just stop
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You still have no idea what’s going on, just caps locking and blaming everything. Scaremongering and hand-waving-flip-outtery.
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Intel had something insecure? sure, but i doubt that had anything to do with this.
"If the equipment manufacturer doesn't enable Intel-recommended Flash Descriptor write protections, an attacker needs Operating kernel access (logical access, Operating System Ring 0). The attacker needs this access to exploit the identified vulnerabilities by applying a malicious firmware image to the platform through a malicious platform driver.
The vulnerability identified in CVE-2017-5712 is exploitable remotely over the network in conjunction with a valid administrative Intel® Management Engine credential. The vulnerability is not exploitable if a valid administrative credential is unavailable."
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/20/intel_flags_firmware_flaws/
Even if someone with local access to the system did decide to utilize a rather complex exploit (and by the time someone is putting that much effort into rigging up your computer just to screw over your Steam account, it's presumable that they have a rather strong issue with you personally), it still wouldn't explain the phone confirmation required to disable two-step authentication. Basically, what's being described would require someone in your own household to jack both your computer and phone, and then actively plot to slowly destroy you via a convoluted, lengthy process.
Perhaps the OP is a 21st Century Digital Bond?
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Well, i still don't get how the attacker has breached your mobile authenticator even though they got access to your email, doesn't make sense at all. I have been using mobile authenticator for like years and haven't had any problem , same goes to all my friends who have been using it ever since it got introduced. Never found anyone complaining they got hacked and their mobile authenticator is breached unless hacker somehow manage to get access to your cellphone in which case it is believeable and do-able.
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I just had everything stolen from my steam account all my money 21 dollars i had for the steam sale gone down the fucking drain.
No idea how they got my password possibly some site linked to my steam account got leaked or a lucky guess either way my Christmas is ruined and years of cards emoticons and backgrounds are now lost
It seems that those who have access to your steam account ie password cracking/breaches/guessing can now turn off 2 step verification and take everything and anything because i had the mobile authenticator and got an email stating that it had been turned off even though whoever did this could have had no access to my authenticator to verify themselves
so don't buy any steam wallet cards ever keep your steam account at zero dollars or 2 cents as 2 cents cant be spent on the community market where they can blow everything and valve seems to refuse to give you refund option for it
and make sure to not use the mobile authenticator ever as i personally at least never had any issues with email verification but mobile seems to slip up and let some things go through without a second verification i noticed this myself and thought nothing of it because i had used steam on my browser on my computer before
sorry if this is long and rambly im just having an awful time the steam sale was all i was looking forward to this christmas and that was ruined and all the emoticons i worked on gathering for years were just stolen like it was nothing OH AND THE ASS LEFT ME WITH ONE EMOTICON ITS FUCKING DEVIOUS FROM SURUGI WITH THE DESCRIPTION I'LL ERASE IT ALL, EVERYTHING! sigh HE HAD TO RUB IT IN WHAT AN ASSHOLE YOU HAVE MY MONEY YOU DESTROYED ALL MY SHIT AND YOU LEAVE ME WITH THIS UGGG sigh
TLDR Dont have money on your steam account and never ever use mobile verification
UPDATE they got in through intel securtiy managment a bloatware peice of software that came with a bios update i also cant figure out how to get rid of it. My time on the email was also spot on rather than 10 minuites late like i had thought
New TLDR steam support is trash and Intel put what is essentially a hackers dream into my bios
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