Valve Warns Steam Machine Buyers About Scam Messages After Cyberattack

If you’ve been holding out on buying Valve’s ludicrously expensive home console, you may have saved yourself from more than an empty wallet. European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or Steam Controller may be the victims of a personal information data breach after one of Valve’s hardware distribution partners was hit by a cyberattack.

CEVA Logistics, the company that helps organize Valve’s European supply chain, informed its partner of the data breach on Aug. 7. A Valve spokesperson told CNET that the company spent the weekend assembling a list of at-risk customers, notifying them about the attack via email on Monday morning.

“Though CEVA is still investigating the attack, we wanted to at least send out messaging to all customers we can assume were affected based on what we currently know,” the spokesperson said.

What Valve currently knows is that the personal information revealed by the cyberattack is...

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