Dirtbag333 Posted November 14, 2011 Member ID: 876 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 89 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 423 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 3012 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/12/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 8, 2014 Birthday: 04/03/1984 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Message from Gabe to Steam Community Nov 11, 2011 Yesterday, on November 10, 2011, the following message was sent to all users via a Steam message.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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudSr Posted November 14, 2011 Member ID: 5 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 359 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2475 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 242 Achievement Points: 16234 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 25, 2020 Birthday: 02/02/1966 Share Posted November 14, 2011 lol sounds like playstation 3 all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonovabich Posted November 14, 2011 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Device: Windows Share Posted November 14, 2011 Just logged on to Steam and i did not get asked to change password or anything else, is this just a big scam to make us change?..anyone been asked to change password yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitting-Duc Posted November 14, 2011 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 84 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5334 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 4610 Achievement Points: 41339 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 08:25 PM Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Share Posted November 14, 2011 Sonovabich Just logged on to Steam and i did not get asked to change password or anything else, is this just a big scam to make us change?..anyone been asked to change password yet? No it's not a scam, the official article can be found here: http://store.steampowered.com/news/6761/ I would change your password to be on the safe side however the probability is that they were only able to retrieve a small number of users data.. the user database for steam is massive and would take a long time to copy over. However in the event that your accounts data was copied it would be advisable to follow the advice given. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 14, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted November 14, 2011 Sitting- Sonovabich Just logged on to Steam and i did not get asked to change password or anything else, is this just a big scam to make us change?..anyone been asked to change password yet? No it's not a scam, the official article can be found here: http://store.steampowered.com/news/6761/ I would change your password to be on the safe side however the probability is that they were only able to retrieve a small number of users data.. the user database for steam is massive and would take a long time to copy over. However in the event that your accounts data was copied it would be advisable to follow the advice given. . As the announcement says,"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)....", unless one shares ones account password between the two, there is nothing that should be of concern in that regard. Anyone who has used a credit or debit card on the system, however, had better keep an eye on their statements. See also http://www.xtremeidiots.com/fora_topic.asp?tid=22220 of 11 November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
baldie Posted November 14, 2011 Member ID: 607 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 75 Topic Count: 243 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 3338 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 2588 Achievement Points: 33686 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 10/21/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 13 hours ago Birthday: 09/16/1966 Device: Windows Share Posted November 14, 2011 Hey you guy's are behind the times lol I posted about this 3 days ago lol my passwords are changed already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Dirtbag333 Posted November 14, 2011 Member ID: 876 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 89 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 423 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 3012 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/12/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 8, 2014 Birthday: 04/03/1984 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 Well better safe than sorry I always say Just tryin to give a helpful heads up and I apologise I didnt see your post, but there is a lot to keep up with all us Idiots runnin wild ! Changed mine as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomer Posted November 17, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted November 17, 2011 wow the hack fukers, glad I don't use their forums! but yeah I will change my password for my acct. Thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomer Posted November 17, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted November 17, 2011 baldie Hey you guy's are behind the times lol I posted about this 3 days ago lol my passwords are changed already then hey WTF I'm really behind lmao......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardcore Posted November 17, 2011 Member ID: 86 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 223 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1824 Content Per Day: 0.34 Reputation: 464 Achievement Points: 13395 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 5, 2022 Birthday: 06/29/1967 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Yeah, I changed my steam pw as soon as i got word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
PrimalFear Posted November 17, 2011 Member ID: 159 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 855 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 93 Achievement Points: 5145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 9, 2012 Birthday: 09/21/1971 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Really? I mean really? In this day in age, really? *sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomer Posted November 17, 2011 Member ID: 2083 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3554 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4992 Achievement Points: 23761 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 14, 2014 Birthday: 10/20/1962 Share Posted November 17, 2011 hey prim...... if the babe in your sig disappears.......I didn't do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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