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    Steam accounts compromised? Intrusion to Steam Database

    Screenshot taken from Steam Forum index on 11/11/11
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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.

    Gabe.


    Are you going to change your password? How about checking your credit card activity? Can we trust steam anymore?

    Steam accounts compromised? Intrusion to Steam Database
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    Jesus Christ, this is as bad as the psn hack -__- I wont change anything as I don't use the steam forums/have an account on there, but their a bit retarded lol.
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    inb4 anonymous or lulzsec takes responsibility for this, even though I am 100% sure those skiddies had nothing to do with it they will still try fame whore it.

    On another note I will be watching my bank account closely for the next few months and wont buy any more shit off steam unless using a prepaid visa.
    Last edited by Traxex84; 11-11-2011 at 08:36 AM.

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