If you logged into Steam in the last few hours you would have been greeted by the following message, one that indicates that the Steam forums have been hacked. In addition, these intruders gained access to a database that contains information such as passwords, purchase history, and encrypted credit card information. Valve Corporation's Gabe Newell personally addressed this issue by issuing a formal apology as well as recommending users to "Watch your credit card activity and statements closely," even though they have no evidence of credit card misuse at this time. The following is the complete transcript from Newell's statement that appeared on Steam.
Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users:

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


I highly recommend that everyone takes their advice and changes their password information ASAP and to keep an eye on your personal accounts.
Last edited by KinJO; Yesterday at 11:41 PM.