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Steam has been HACKED! / Steam Forum
Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums.
We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.
We don’t have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.
While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well.
We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password.
We will reopen the forums as soon as we can.
I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
Gabe.
So, I highly recommend you make sure your steam forum password isn't the same as your steam account password. If so, change your steam account password.
Keep steam guard on, and as said above, check your bank account(s) frequently for the next few weeks.
Apart from that, stay safe and have fun (and enjoy your friday!)
We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.
We don’t have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.
While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well.
We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password.
We will reopen the forums as soon as we can.
I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
Gabe.
So, I highly recommend you make sure your steam forum password isn't the same as your steam account password. If so, change your steam account password.
Keep steam guard on, and as said above, check your bank account(s) frequently for the next few weeks.
Apart from that, stay safe and have fun (and enjoy your friday!)
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Old story?
paypal :)
And what would you do to fix the situation, THEpro.wcK? Do you really think it's that easy?
yeah this was 2 wks ago. the fuck**s stole not only my Steam account, but also my credit card and Paypal account and used it to buy things like Strawberrys, music cd's and others. I already have changed my credit card, and Paypal, and also Steam. but it was too messy, too many days stressful, and too dissappointing. im just too angry with Steam for this violation of my privacy. if i wher you i'll double check my Credit card now or Paypal and check your own account !
VERY BAD!!!!
I had a suspiction about that, when forums were down for 2 days.
Come on valve.... is it that hard???
What do we do?
delete ur credit cards off ur account?
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