Scammed by the game Town of Salem developers

[Cecko]

Yo,
About a year ago Town of Salem leaked some informations - passwords, emails,logins etc... including me...
They didn't announced that, people had to find out on some third party page...
Lot of people critized that including me... and then as a revenge (probably) Town of Salem admins banned me... I didn't break any of their rules... When I asked what happened, what rule did I break, they banned me from the forum...
So I got the game + DLC bought in my inventory, but can't do a sh1t...
I can even prove I didn't break any rule... but... here I am banned from the game i spent houndreds of hours in... not sure what to do... just like to tell to steam people so they not gonna be scammed as me... by the game which is offficially included in steam

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Contact support.

[ReBoot]

Out of curiosity: Did you voice legit criticism in a mature and constructive matter or did you join the ranting crowd? I've seen quite a huge lot of people not getting the difference between those two citing the injustice as a (IMHO lame) excuse to go into full-infantile-rant-mode.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

I remember that. They did announce it.

The passwords were encrypted. There was no billing information.

Email addresses, usernames, and IP addresses were exposed, with some other detail not worth much.

All in all, a "minor" breach in this day and age frankly. Did you get up on your high horse like you were someone's Dad and talk a bunch of nonsense about this a year ago?

You probably deserve the ban.

[Cecko]

Originally posted by AmsterdamHeavy:

I remember that. They did announce it.

The passwords were encrypted. There was no billing information.

Email addresses, usernames, and IP addresses were exposed, with some other detail not worth much.

All in all, a "minor" breach in this day and age frankly. Did you get up on your high horse like you were someone's Dad and talk a bunch of nonsense about this a year ago?

You probably deserve the ban.

No I did not. TBF I honestly believe noone did.

There was just problem (still searchable on reddit) they did NOT tell us... They did month later and only because someone randomly found out on same other page.

So please don't be Donald Trump spreading fake news.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TownofSalemgame/comments/abqnf9/blankmediagames_critical_data_breach/

I don't see any horses and dads there in comments, do you?

[Cecko]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Contact support.

:qr:

Where can I contact support of Steam, mate?

I tried to solve that with the guys, but I was only insulted and banned... :/

All I carried from that was bad mood everytime I tried to somehow talk with those dudes. I was like "is it even worthy for me"... but then I was thinking maybe someone else got the same problem as me.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by Cecko:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Contact support.

:qr:

Where can I contact support of Steam, mate?

https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithCommunityContactSupport
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[Edifier]

Originally posted by Cecko:

Yo,
About a year ago Town of Salem leaked some informations - passwords, emails,logins etc... including me...
They didn't announced that, people had to find out on some third party page...
Lot of people critized that including me... and then as a revenge (probably) Town of Salem admins banned me... I didn't break any of their rules... When I asked what happened, what rule did I break, they banned me from the forum...
So I got the game + DLC bought in my inventory, but can't do a ♥♥♥♥...
I can even prove I didn't break any rule... but... here I am banned from the game i spent houndreds of hours in... not sure what to do... just like to tell to steam people so they not gonna be scammed as me... by the game which is offficially included in steam

There is a difference between leaked and being hacked. In this case it seems Town of Salem where hacked and people stole the information.

Originally posted by Cecko:

No I did not. TBF I honestly believe noone did.

There was just problem (still searchable on reddit) they did NOT tell us... They did month later and only because someone randomly found out on same other page.

So please don't be Donald Trump spreading fake news.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TownofSalemgame/comments/abqnf9/blankmediagames_critical_data_breach/

I don't see any horses and dads there in comments, do you?

That post was made on January 2:nd. The hack happened December 28. It's 5 days between them. Not a month later.

[Cecko]

Originally posted by Edifier:

Originally posted by Cecko:

Yo,
About a year ago Town of Salem leaked some informations - passwords, emails,logins etc... including me...
They didn't announced that, people had to find out on some third party page...
Lot of people critized that including me... and then as a revenge (probably) Town of Salem admins banned me... I didn't break any of their rules... When I asked what happened, what rule did I break, they banned me from the forum...
So I got the game + DLC bought in my inventory, but can't do a ♥♥♥♥...
I can even prove I didn't break any rule... but... here I am banned from the game i spent houndreds of hours in... not sure what to do... just like to tell to steam people so they not gonna be scammed as me... by the game which is offficially included in steam

There is a difference between leaked and being hacked. In this case it seems Town of Salem where hacked and people stole the information.

Originally posted by Cecko:

No I did not. TBF I honestly believe noone did.

There was just problem (still searchable on reddit) they did NOT tell us... They did month later and only because someone randomly found out on same other page.

So please don't be Donald Trump spreading fake news.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TownofSalemgame/comments/abqnf9/blankmediagames_critical_data_breach/

I don't see any horses and dads there in comments, do you?

That post was made on January 2:nd. The hack happened December 28. It's 5 days between them. Not a month later.

This is NOT the official post, mate :-)
asi I said before:
--> "...someone randomly found out on same other page" <--

This was the 'someone' guy...

[Edifier]

Okay so it wasn't official but what exactly are you planning to do? What would you need help with?

They didn't scam you and they didn't leak your information. It was stolen.

[RcsPcsN1]

So please don't be Donald Trump spreading fake news

Stuff like this is probably why you got banned, don’t bring politics into Steam Discussions, and don’t say something you can’t back up.

[Coolroo]

Why are you guys all jumping on this guys ass without knowing what happened? Show us what you said to the developers and we can determine if it was ban worthy, acting like people always get banned for just reasons is stupid and you all look like idiots for assuming otherwise

[RcsPcsN1]

I wasn’t serious about the Donald Trump stuff getting him banned but he should leave politics outside of Steam

[Lucifer ★✬]

By the gap in posting i take it op was banned. If so, op and everyone elce should just stop or you will get banned again

[Flavorable]

I would like to start off with:

You're saying there was no official post, but there was, you being oblivious about it is not the Dev's fault. (Official post: https://www.blankmediagames.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=95378)

Immediately after this official post, an e-mail was sent out to every single registered user about the breach and to change their password.

The only time we ban people from the forums is either when they're using extreme hatespeech, or if they consistently get warned about breaking the rules, but refuse to stop. Generally it takes about 6 board warnings and 2 suspensions first.

I'll have no problem looking up what happened with your account, so if you give me your ToS username, I can check.

[Cecko]

Originally posted by Flavorable:

I would like to start off with:

You're saying there was no official post

Where did I say that? I said there was, but way after the unofficial.
Also... the page you linked is forum. I believe you got numbers how many people actualy from the game goes to check forum and how many of them actualy saw this msg.
My humble guess is like... 1% visits forum 5% visits reddit on weekly bases? Maybe less, I don't really know...
There is lot of casual players who just go to salemtown.net and press play and don't really care what's going on in community... and those people deserved to know they were hacked too...

Also... I just wanted to warn players with my bad experience...
It's like when you buy toothbrush and it doesn't work (clean your tooth badly.. I dont know :D), so you go to the website you bought that and write review about this...
When you got good experience, you do the same thing...
I remember I promoted ToS to like 10 people before and they started playing the game with me and after I told them what happened to me, some of them stopped playing (well, they mostly played with me)... that's how it works.