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October 26, 2026 | Anders Frost

dumau gets his Steam account back a day after a mid-tournament hack

Legacy’s dumau has regained access to his Steam account, a day after he reported it hacked in the middle of PGL Masters Bucharest 2026. The Brazilian thanked Valve and Steam Support on Sunday night, before Legacy’s match against Liquid at .

dumau raised the alarm on Saturday evening, a few hours after Legacy had lost their opening match in Bucharest to Nemiga after a four-overtime Ancient. In a post tagged to Counter-Strike, Steam and Valve, he wrote that his account had been hacked and that the email address linked to it had been changed.

Less than 24 hours later, the problem was solved. On Sunday evening, after Legacy had beaten DENDELE 2-0 in a series that went to double overtime on Mirage, dumau wrote that his account was back and thanked Counter-Strike, Steam Support and Valve for the support.

He has not said how the account was taken or whether anything was lost from it.

dumau played Sunday’s match before he announced that the account was back, and went 36-36 against DENDELE. Legacy are on one win and one loss in the Swiss stage and face Liquid on Monday afternoon, where the winner goes to 2-1.

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A lifelong gamer with 21 years on Steam, first introduced to Counter-Strike in 1.6 but truly hooked by CS:GO. Loves the idea of playing AWP - just not quite skilled enough to pull it off. Outside the server, a journalist with 14 years of experience covering both traditional sports and esports.

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