hogso Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Valve has admitted that personal information including credit card information, emails and passwords have all been stolen by hackers, following a security issue last weekend. Although the initial break-in by hackers was thought to be limited to just the Steam forums, Valve boss Gabe Newell has written to all Steam users to admit that it's a lot more serious than that. Here's the full text of what he said: '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.' As you can see it's serious stuff, but the one detail that's missing is numbers. It's not clear at all how many accounts were accessed and therefore how many people are at risk. Steam has around 35 million active user accounts, so if the hackers got into them all that's a lot of people checking a lot of credit cards. Read more On as big a scale as the PSN hack earlier in the year? I hope not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Compensation is in order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Yeah, saw that when I fired up Steam earlier. Changed my password, dunno what good it will do. Had the same on PSN earlier in the year, but that hack happened about a month before my card expired so I wasnt worried. This one is a bit more scary, Ill say. Dunno whether to cancel my card and get a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCU Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 Oh for **** sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laivasse Posted November 11, 2011 Share Posted November 11, 2011 EDIT: the email image I posted here turned out to be fake :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted November 11, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted November 11, 2011 I must admit the apparent consummate ease that details are lost by even the best companies out there are beginning to sit uneasy with me. The rise of Xbox hackings that appear to be using a fault at EAs end was what really got me thinking about just how secure things are with my details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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