[madcat]

Don't know how many know this all ready as I just only found out, but Steam has been compromised.

It happened on or just before the 6th November and at the moment there asking all users of the Steam Forum's to change there passwords and change your Steam account password if it is the same as your Steam Forum password.

Message left to users if you try to accesses the Steam Forum;

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.

Where I got the news from >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15690187

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This I will make a ( Sticky ) as this is BIG news and we have many here that use Steam and have Steam accounts.
Thanks for the info madcat.

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[RadPig94]

don't tell me it's those greasy, pimply, smelly Anons again

[Fireskull]

hock:


Account hackers should be... :evil: ... uh ... you can imagine! :evil:

Thanks for the warning.



Fireskull

[Jambo]

Thank you madcat,

I just receive this message in German and changed my password already...

Jambo S!

[cammoammo]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnggg :OO