Steam hacked

almalexius

 

almalexius

Originally posted by almalexius

10 November 2011

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.

Every time i give my data to some company this seems to happen. After just one week of Skyrim, bang! there it is again. These companies should really be forced to refund my game or something for all the trouble you have to go through for their incompetence.

 

 

Boraell

Originally posted by almalexius

Originally posted by almalexius

10 November 2011

Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users:

Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6.

After just one week of Skyrim,

 Skyrim didnt come out till 11th, look at the date it happened....

 

spankybus

Yea, I think it is time to pass an international law...all convicted hackers are put to death. The planet is overpopulated anyway.

Supersoups

Originally posted by spankybus

Yea, I think it is time to pass an international law...all convicted hackers are put to death. The planet is overpopulated anyway.

/facepalm

seraphis79

Originally posted by spankybus

Yea, I think it is time to pass an international law...all convicted hackers are put to death. The planet is overpopulated anyway.

 /signed