Steam Forums got hacked.

[Crazylol5]

''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.''


Just for you people who didn't see it while playing Skyrim.

[yottabyte]

At least Steam has all the data well encrypted, unlike other big gaming platforms who were hacked this year.

[Crazylol5]

At least Steam has all the data well encrypted, unlike other big gaming platforms who were hacked this year.

*cough* hint *cough*

I sure hope they only hacked the Steam Forum database and not the whole steam database, because I don't have a forum account.
Also, this enrages me so much, I hate people who mess with Gaben.

[Sir Prize]

"We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums."

Derp.

[Crazylol5]

A STEAM FORUM DATABASE?

[Sir Prize]

"in addition to the forums."

[Crazylol5]

A FORUM DATABASE IN ADDITION TO THE FORUMS THEMSELVES?

[yottabyte]

Someone says Gaben, this starts playing in my head





Also, all data is salted and hashed. If they magically manage to decrypt that (if it's really well encrypted, brute-forcing one string could take more than a lifetime), the new Steam Guard will deny any other computers access to your account. There is not really a whole lot to worry about here.

[Crazylol5]

Also, all data is salted and hashed. If they magically manage to decrypt that (if it's really well encrypted, brute-forcing one string could take more than a lifetime), the new Steam Guard will deny any other computers access to your account. There is not really a whole lot to worry about here.

Thank God for Gaben, now listen to this because he just saved your Skyrim from pissed off scriptkiddies

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This thread is now Gaben music.

[doggypwn]

You're welcome.