THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: demi on November 10, 2011, 05:55:13 PM
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Firesale on user information!
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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:lol
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Holy shit.
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Someone want to gift me Van Cruncheon's CC#? Thanks
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My forum account has the same pass as my Steam account. Thanks Gabe.
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>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.
Nice FUD. Non issue. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to farm some hats in TF2.
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Dont worry, I'm not interested in a poor person's information
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free hats for everyone
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That's it, I'm done changing passwords and freaking out. Hackers can go ahead and steal my information and treat themselves to some goodies, they earned it.
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My forum account has the same pass as my Steam account. Thanks Gabe.
Mine doesn't but I changed my Steam password anyway.
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We should get credit card items like the Mercenary badge
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My forum account has the same pass as my Steam account. Thanks Gabe.
Mine doesn't but I changed my Steam password anyway.
I just checked, and realized that my forum pass doesn't have any capitalized characters, while the Store pass has a few. I also never paid using my CC, only through Paypal. So yeah, I'm gonna sit this one out.
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Please Understand.
Gabe.
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Greeeeeeeat.
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Good thing I accidentally threw away my only debit card with my copy of FF13 last week!
Pretty ugly for a company whose main focus these days is their digital distribution platform. Seems like Sony was actually lucky to be the first hit by this. Sure, their incompetence in handling the situation set the bar for embarrassment quite high, but at least they didn't have a heads-up first.
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Changed my Steam password, even though I don't have a forum account. Sounds like nothing major's going to come from all this, but I'll keep an eye on my bank account for a while just in case.
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I think the last game I bought was when I finally told Steam to save my CC info. lol
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It'll happen to every company at some point. My love for steam and Gabe will never die!
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:lol @ asshurt sony fans in that gaf thread
Lets form a mob and go burn down their headquarters! The hackers are practically doing them a favor to show how bad their security is!
Oh wait, this isn't Sony, it's Valve?
Stupid hackers! Darn it, let me go change my passwords. I hope I get some cool TF2 hats!
this was after 7 pages of "fuck valve" btw
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The sheer unhinging of the Sony set this gen has been the most implausible/amusing development imo.
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Will we get some free goodies out of this?
@only thing I care about
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People post in gaming forums? ???
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Will we get some free goodies out of this?
@only thing I care about
Maybe a hat...
(http://i.imgur.com/UPuni.jpg)
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Probably fake, but Gabe has responded like this before:
(http://i.imgur.com/ZI1Pt.png)
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ISNT DOTA 2 FREE 2 PLAY ANYWAY?
THANKS GABE