Hacked PayPal

[David P]

Hi, my dad told me to post this discussion.

Basicly his PayPal got hacked and he was charged over $100 from steam. He just wanted to let steam know asap since they need to check the steam discussions. So to Steam, my dad basicly wants you to check your employees. I personaly don't want to get invovled with all of this but he told me to post this. He just thinks one of the Steam emplyees hacked him or something.

[wuddih]

this here is a users forum. other users can not help you.

you need to contact Steam Support:
http://support.steampowered.com/

also Steam employees wont hack him, he has paranoia ... I guess it is either your father or your Steam account that was used to make a purchase over paypal and the security of your own accounts are in your hands, not in anyone elses.

[Laptop]

https://store.steampowered.com/account/

Have there been any purchases in there that would amount to $100?

It's possible someone may have gotten into the PayPal account and bought stuff (I assure it wasn't anyone from Steam (Valve) as they don't have access to PayPal).

[David P]

Originally posted by wuddih:

this here is a users forum. other users can not help you.

you need to contact Steam Support:
http://support.steampowered.com/

I understand that. My dad just wanted steam to know everywhere possible.
He's not really sure that someone from steam is the cause.

[HLCinSC]

Originally posted by "FullTime"Gamer:

Originally posted by wuddih:

this here is a users forum. other users can not help you.

you need to contact Steam Support:
http://support.steampowered.com/

I understand that. My dad just wanted steam to know everywhere possible.
He's not really sure that someone from steam is the cause.

it's very doubtful as there would be very little reason for them to charge something from Steam which would be very easily investigated. With employee fraud, what typically happens is they skim the payment info and use it elsewhere on things that can be quickly fenced and not easily traced back. Scan your computer with malware bytes and have your dad freeze his paypal account and delink any attached payment info.

[Long Ago [Linux]]

Unless he had a simple PayPal password it likely has nothing to do with hacking his PayPal account and everything to do with his computer being infected and Steam account hijacked, especially if the money went to his Steam Wallet and not a different Steam account. Once a hacker tricks someone into viewing an infected file from a bogus website, they can get your Steam Guard file and password and access your Steam account. Sometimes when you use PayPal from Steam it does not even ask you for your PayPal password if you have used PayPal recently on Steam.

I normally run Linux, so I did not realize how easy it was for Windows to get compromised until I was a little too hasty trying searching for Google Chrome for Win7 on my laptop and ending up with a bogus browser that also planted adware/malware that got into Firefox and Internet Explorer too. Installing Malwarebytes at that point removed some things related to the browser when first run and run again in safe mode. But that did not remove the malware. I had to Malware scan the drive from another computer to remove the infection (AVG also found something it quarantined), then back in the laptop booted it to safe mode, uninstalled/reinstalled Malwarebytes, then it was finally able to find the rest of the garbage to remove from the registry.

I am not sure how easy it is to remove whatever the Steam hackers use to hijack accounts. But if you scan the forums you will find a lot of people who suddenly find their valuable items missing because they have been hijacked.