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Steam Hacked, Possible Credit Card Issues
According to Valve in a letter from Gabe Newell himself, the Steam Forums were “defaced” on late Sunday evening. While the intrusions were initially believed to be contained to just the forums, an internal investigation proved that the break in went beyond the forums alone.
The intruders gained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database included information such as user names, passwords, purchase histories, and addresses. Worst of all, encrypted credit card information is also among the list of possibly stolen data, but there’s no evidence to support that any was actually taken.
Newell was quick to point out that they were still investigating, and that there is “no evidence of credit card misuse at this time.”
Additionally, we were notified that all forum users are required to change their Steam forum passwords upon next login. This, of course, does not apply to all Steam users, as Steam accounts and forum accounts are separate.
However, Valve mentions that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to change that either, especially if your forum and account info are identical.
Steam is not the only victim of intrusion recently, as both Xbox Live and PSN have seen their fair share of online exploitation this year alone.
Now, I have to applaud Gabe and his team at Valve. Not only was a press release sent out in a timely fashion, the letter was addressed personally from Newell himself. It goes a long way to show that the company actually has a little heart.
I’ll still be using Steam in the future, even if I do end up having to spend hours dealing with the fraud department of my bank.
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Damn you hackers….Why cant you stick to hacking systems to enable playing copies and iso’s of games and such..Its this kind of hacking that makes the homebrew community look bad.
Who knows,the guys that did it perhaps wanted to prove that Steam isn’t as secure as Valve make it out to be.Good thing I never used it for purchases.
Kinda sucks,i had to change my password for steam and gmail.What bs hackers are giving us today.
I’ve had to unistall Steam, and all my 20+ HL mods…sad!
Oh wow.
I’ve purchased from Steam before but I’ve always unticked the save credit card information thing. Do you think there might be a chance it was still compromised?
I don’t care, I’ll still buy stuff =D
God you people are retarded, why did you uninstall steam it does nothing, steam secure is for steam not the fourms. Your steam account will be fine. Valve is also posting worst case senario which I’m sure all your credit info is safe. Only your steam fourm password is in danger, so stop being little whinny bitches and grow some for the steam christmas sale which is worth going through this. So shutup
Damn these hackers why do they keep hacking things we enjoy?? They are ruining shit so badly!
Skint ass hackers, can’t make their own money so they go and steal everyone and anyone elses. Fook off, get a job and stop spoilling everyone elses fun, people work, come home and want some kind of entertainment in what little hours left there is in a week, not sat infront of a screen, changing passwords, checking bank accounts and having electrical equiptment sat there doing nothing.
The world’s economy is in a bad way as it is without you lot jamming your scabby pricks up its arse, you’re not doing anyone any favours, think about it…
its actually just the forums that got hacked soooo yeah… :D
Actually, hackers can be good – if there were no hackers to test the system, how could they get good security?
But this kind of hack, like trying to steal credit card information (possibly), is… Just not cool – want money, steal it from the company, they don’t suffer as much, than if you took a few millions from my bank account.
If there were no hacker then there would be no need for these security measures.
You know I find it funny…that all these video game companys have gotten hacked. PSN was kind of begging for it, and then Xbox Live stepped up and gloated about of how strong their stuff was and then got hacked through FIFA lmao…..Fifa….and now Steam kind of gloated and now they are hacked…im wondering if somebody from Nintendo is doing this? (Nintendo fanboy so I sure hope not) Or if some group of people are trying to put video game companys back in their place and gamers by telling them straight up to their faces that their fav companys are not that great in security…btw o,o to get past Steams security then wow I believe right? Thats high up stuff right?
Credit card info was hacked as soon as we put it in on Minecradt. Credit info showed 4 attempts to access account but thank god, denied. Warning to everyone.