Steam hacked

[Dae]

Valve says Steam service was hacked, admits user login and payment info may have been pilfered.

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.

[Kaiden]

Oh god. Glad my password was like 20 digits, will change it at any rate.

[James]

Some tech/game threads in general spam/discuss lately Dae.


Forgot to post about this. Better approach than Sony. Free Dota 2 (beta?) and Portal 2 copies to be ran out as compensation according to a query about encryption to Newell via email

[Dae]

I felt like it was a big news that deserves a place in G. Discussion. But you're right.

[Aidan]

ye got a reminder to change my password form james.

Quite happy about portal 2 because I haven't bought it yet

[Baleout]

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.

[~DJ~]

Sounds horrible but if I'm hearing this right... do I get free Portal 2?!

[Aidan]

Sounds horrible but if I'm hearing this right... do I get free Portal 2?!

Yes, DJ; you get a free game.

[Kaiden]

wtf I gave someone a TF2 medal for my Portal 2

[~DJ~]

Sounds horrible but if I'm hearing this right... do I get free Portal 2?!

Yes, DJ; you get a free game.

Well I logged in and saw nothing..?

[ynnaD]

NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU DJ