Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

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Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by japanimater » Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:52 pm

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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.

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http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212201p1.html
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by japanimater » Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:57 pm

What happened prior to this discovery after the initial hack of the forums but before the Steam account and credit card info was discovered as possibly compromised, there is more info not covered in the above IGN.com article.

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Unsatisfied with merely enabling cheating in Steam games with unauthorized code, it would appear that a group called FknOwned took its hackery a step further, hacking the Steam user forum to insert an ad for its own site, which promises hacks, along with "general discussion sections, hacking tutorials and tools, porn, free giveaways and much more." NeoGAF user imek reported that the same message came in as an email from Steam.

We say "it would appear" because we didn't witness the hack for ourselves; rather than allow a hacking site to advertise itself prominently, Valve has taken the forums down "for maintenance."
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/11/07/repor ... n-offline/

Additional sources.
http://www.gamesradar.com/steam-forums- ... trusion-2/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011- ... ms-offline
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by CaptainTripps » Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:22 pm

Everyone will get a copy of Alien Swarm as compensation.

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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by stickbeast » Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:24 pm

At least they aren't waiting two weeks to let us know. Why didn't we get an email about it though?
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by japanimater » Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:48 pm

CaptainTripps wrote:Everyone will get a copy of Alien Swarm as compensation.
Naw, everyone will get their 4th copy of Half-Life2.
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by Velp » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:01 pm

Come on, everyone gets one free key... almost useless where HL2 you can use for mods.... while lanning... with people that don't have steam...
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by Django » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:11 pm

I want to loudly state that, at this very specific moment, thanks God i am not this guy...
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Seriously, right now i'll be worried as fuck
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by Haymakers9th » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:21 pm

yeah being purple would suck
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by jennyy » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:29 pm

I'm praying for sims 3.
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Post by Grndslmhttr3 » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:37 pm

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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by ja raul » Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:59 pm

im not looking to get anything for the downtime since I dont use the forums, and I havent been affected yet as far as I know.. my skyrim preload is complete so as long as I can play that for the next week I find the apology unnecessary.

and a question:
are encrypted cc numbers hackproof?
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by Dr. Fisch » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:08 pm

well its a good thing i dont save my cc# on steam
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by Avvatar » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:58 pm

ja raul wrote:are encrypted cc numbers hackproof?
Yep. Once encrypted those digits can never be decrypted. Which is why they're saved. For the undecryptability. Totally undecryptable. Can never ever be turned back into just a normal number to be used to charge your credit card for more games. Totally totally undecryptable.
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by Blathersby » Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:00 pm

You're probably gonna get a tf2 hat.
Also I haven't used my forums account for like 2 years so no big deal for me.
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Re: Steam Hacked, Credit Card Data At Risk

Post by ChitterChatter » Fri Nov 11, 2011 12:03 am

I changed my password just to be safe, and my old credit card number is in the system, but its not valid. I'll still delete it.

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