Steam Hacked

[o.pwuaioc]

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.

Well, hell.

[Hobie-wan]

Bleh.

Not sure I've ever bothered on the forums. Coveniently my CC information just changed so the one Valve has is no good anymore.

*edited after launching Steam*

[o.pwuaioc]

Where was this? I didn't get any email. I don't think I've ever posted on the Steam forums though.

Just popped up on Steam updates. I haven't posted on the Steam forums either, but I am part of the Racketboy group there.

[jfrost]

Fortunately I use PayPal, but I changed my password and enabled SteamGuard just in case.

[dsheinem]

so is everyone going to shit all over Valve now the way they did over Sony, or are we going to pretend it is drastically different?

[noiseredux]

so is everyone going to shit all over Valve now the way they did over Sony, or are we going to pretend it is drastically different?

I assume y'all will pretend it's different. Since y'know... it's on PC and all.

[AppleQueso]

At least Steam's credit card info and passwords are encrypted

[alienjesus]

They were also much qicker and more open about letting people know about it.

I don't even use steam or PSN and I think this is different.

[pakopako]

so is everyone going to shit all over Valve now the way they did over Sony, or are we going to pretend it is drastically different?

I assume y'all will pretend it's different. Since y'know... it's on PC and all.

[Betamax001]

Joke's on whomever might hack my steam account and try and steal my credit card info, because I only have like 5 bucks on it.