Steam Hacked

Lance Uppercut

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Steam has been hacked and users' personal details, including credit card information, emails and passwords, have been compromised following a breach of the Steam forums last weekend.

Valve boss Gabe Newell has issued an official statement confirming the security breach.

There has apparently been no evidence of credit card fraud as a result of the breach, but all users will be required to change their passwords for the Steam forums.

Steam accounts, separate from the forums, will not be forced to change passwords, but it is advised.

Here's the full statement from Newell:

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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Computurd and Video Games
 
I never use the Steam forums. Another one with a shit security clearance bites the dust.
 
Was wondering why I got a password reset email. I'm not overly bothered, I purchased a few games through steam maybe 3-4 years back but that card will have expired by now.
 
I bought EU3 from Gamersgate. Are they affiliated with them, or do they just provide a similar service?
 
Lance Uppercut said:
Computurd and Video Games
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Eh what the feck ? What do I do ? I buy games off them. I can't get into the website in work. Can someone please give me a run down on this. The last thing I need right now is to have someone take money out of my already crippled bank account :nono:
 
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