Steam Forums Hacked !!!!

SoOlDiEr · Nov 11, 2011

10 November 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.

I have a forum account (different password) but that shows how much steam is not secured, and i can guarantee that as my account has been hacked before.. but anyway hope they fix their security flows as all over the net many tools to hack steam accounts

To steam learn from this lesson and improve your low security for the sake of your users!

Karam El Masri · Nov 12, 2011

yes exactly!
I hope everything becomes ok and steam fixes their security issues :S

Shatilov · Nov 12, 2011

wow, this is bad. very bad.

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Steam Forums Hacked !!!!

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