Steam security updates coming next week with longer trade holds
The team will extend the hold on Steam item trades to 15 days and listings on the Steam Community Market will have a hold of 15 days before an item can be sold.
Those trading with long-time Steam friends should not the hold duration will remain at the one day period.
Steam users who are already protected by the Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator will not be impacted – or if they add the security feature today.
Also, Steam Support will no longer restore items that have left accounts following a successful trade or market transaction. The reason for this, is the process previously created duplicates of original items.
Valve will implement the new security measures next week on March 9. You can read over the announcement on Steam, which explains things more fully.
The Steam Guard Mobile Authenticator introduced in December, and Valve estimates that 95% of daily trades use the mobile authenticator.
The company said at the time of the authenticator’s released there were around “77,000 accounts hijacked and pillaged each month.”
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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2016/03/02/steam-security-updates-coming-next-week-with-longer-trade-holds/
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SagePosted:
Ben- Great news for steam users.
Great news??? this is like terrible since we have to wait too make money now.... well even longer than we had to before.
SeamPosted:
Too often to steam users experience theft of some sort from their steam accounts, this is great news.
MeadowPosted:
GT-R I just wonder if they'll ever work on their customer support.
That is what I was wondering, it is shocking.
DanielPosted:
I do not use Steam but this seems quite good that they actually care about the security.
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