PSA: Steam Hacked

cynthetiq · Nov 11, 2011

Steam Hacked:

November 10th, 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.
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I don't have my CC with them, but still just an FYI if you don't use Steam regularly.

itwasme · Nov 11, 2011

I haven't heard of them. What kind of forum? (I would look it up, but they just mentioned being down.)

Zweiblumen · Nov 11, 2011

Thanks for the info

Jove · Nov 11, 2011

itwasme said: ↑

I haven't heard of them. What kind of forum? (I would look it up, but they just mentioned being down.)
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Steam is not a forum, but an application where people can purchase games that are stored on their computer and then play the game later. I haven't used the application in a long time, so I am not sure if steam has improved in performance.

snowy · Nov 11, 2011

Good thing I hadn't gotten around to buying Left for Dead or Left for Dead 2 yet.

EventHorizon · Nov 11, 2011

well it's not like it wasn't expected to happen eventually with all these sick new games coming out.

Frosstbyte · Nov 11, 2011

Unless they're just lying outright, it doesn't sound like it's a very serious breach, especially if the CC and pw information was actually encrypted. I'll still change my pw and watch my CC statement, but far less invasive than the Sony hack.

I never made a forum account.

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PSA: Steam Hacked

cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

itwasme But you'll never prove it.

Zweiblumen Slightly Tilted

Jove Slightly Tilted

snowy so kawaii Staff Member

EventHorizon assuredly the cause of the angry Economy..

Frosstbyte Winter is coming

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PSA: Steam Hacked

cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

itwasme But you'll never prove it.

Zweiblumen Slightly Tilted

Jove Slightly Tilted

snowy so kawaii Staff Member

EventHorizon assuredly the cause of the angry Economy..

Frosstbyte Winter is coming

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