mr krabs Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Just had this message pop up on steam so beware and change passwords.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 *****ed. 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...
Whoops Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Bloody thing... thanks. Better change details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazzyColoUrs Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 First PSN, then Steam. Origin next wtf!. Better change password. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoS Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 servers must be getting hammered, won't let me change mine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Somerset Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Thanks for the heads up on this one Mr.Krabs. Yet again proves you should use a different password everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattz Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 servers must be getting hammered, won't let me change mine took me 20 mins the other day to get the password change email :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaxorISay Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 what..... pff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr krabs Posted November 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 I've managed to change 2 steam passwords but my newest one, the one I set up for mw3 I can't change, luckily I don't pay using cc details and just get redirected for a paypal payment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whoops Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 I cant actually logon using the webinterface, just hangs... on another note - it did ask me for a code as it 'detected' another browser or PC. I guess that is a good thing as it needs to be verified and the system detects another PC is trying to access the account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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