Steam Stolen Account Question

I have seen some people whose accounts got hacked and they never got them back, I recently sold my ps3 and now I have 350$ to spend on pc gaming, and I want to invest on pc games. The question is: "can I invest crazy money on steam, or do I risk getting hacked and losing all my stuff?" Can't steam retrieve my account if I lose it somehow?

Edit: I've read that some people got stolen, and the robbers used hacks on their accounts and steam banned them. That's rough. What to do in this case?

I've been member of Steam for over 4 years now other then keep your computer secure not fall for phishing scams you will be safe as can be. They just added extra security called Steam Guard. I would buy what you really want now with some money but remember the weekly, spring and xmas sales are pretty sick for picking up games cheap.

I have never got hacked in the year i have used it, plus with steam guard its even harder now. In the future you will be able to use intel protection tech in the sb, and completely lock your steam account to that pc

Been on steam since steam started (oh man the lolfest back with cs 1.5-1.6 transition to steam days)... Never been hacked. Those that do get hacked are ones that click links hacked accounts send to the friends list, accidentally give off information do to trojan/keyloggers on computer etc, or are just naive. As long as you never hit a link anyone messages you (copy paste to a web browser)and keep your computer clean, you will never get hacked.

You can connect your steam account with your email so it cant get hacked.

They people who get hacked are not connecting them, and going onto fake websites.

ive been using steam since,,, 2005? back in the day of cs 1.6 basically, and my accounts been hacked once, and when it did, steam support got it back for me in the same day, they have a VERY good support staff

Used Steam since '04 and not once have I lost my account. Someone once tried, though, and I almost fell for it, but a quick password change fixed that.

Just be wary of links and stay away of sites that could have viruses and the like.

I've been using Steam for about 3 years now, had my account stolen once. Got it back easily, just sent a picture of CD Keys I had for Orange Box and CS and they reset the password for me. Took a few hours.

I've been on Steam since 2005 and haven't been hacked once. It's all about being careful really, don't trust suspicious links. SteamGuard will protect you anyway and even if it's somehow hacked, always remember the former advice.