Steam Hacked?

[Egan]

Just got home from my hols, booted up Steam to play some Football Manager and found this:

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***8217;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***8217;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.

Is this old news? Did I miss it when I was away? I use PayPal anyway so I guess I shouldn't have any cc details out there on their system. I don't use their forums either.

Bad stuff, but did anyone really think this was never going to happen considering all the other hacking nonsense over the last few months?

I guess all you Steam massive out there should check your cc statements. Hope no one here was compromised

Is this old news?

No, it has just come up

[soopaman2]

A week ago almost actually.

And just the forums.

I would suggest changing your forum password, and the password to your steam window itself though, just in case.


And put on your steam guard.

[soopaman2]

(sorry for this double post)

A hack making site hacked the steam forums and advertised themselves.

If you like to cheat at counter strike and call of duty , you would love these guys.

But I miss my steam forums, and use them alot. I would wish no skill cheaters to go away.

ZERO SKILL!
ZERO!

Any moron can install an auto-target program and be elite.

Now you know why I hate Call of Duty and Counter Strike so much, too many script kiddies.

[Oberon]

It's not just the forums though, they got into one of the databases too.

It was only a matter of time really, everyone else has been hacked. It was only natural Steam would be to.

[Egan]

Originally Posted by Oberon

It's not just the forums though, they got into one of the databases too.

It was only a matter of time really, everyone else has been hacked. It was only natural Steam would be to.

Yeah, that's the troubling part: looks like a bunch of stuff could be compromised.

As far as the hacker kidz are concerned, I expect Steam is the big, big one. exactly how many users do they have?

[papa_smurf]

Now, just imagine the fury/venting from the fanboys if it was EA/Origin that had been hacked instead.

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

Now, just imagine the fury/venting from the fanboys if it was EA/Origin that had been hacked instead.

Well its EA, they suck automatically.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Task Force

Well its EA, they suck automatically.

EA is the devourer of souls and studios.

[soopaman2]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

EA is the devourer of souls and studios.

It's a guarantee that once EA buys a franchise, it automatically becomes unbuyable.

Proven fact.

Getting bought out by EA= jumping the shark.