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Life is like a box of chocolates...    Registered Member #14 Joined: Sat Dec 20 2003Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2646 | From STEAM - if you use Steam to get games READ THIS. 10 November 2011 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. | ||
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| *HmS*Cheech |
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  Registered Member #945 Joined: Wed Nov 23 2005Location: Uk Newcastle Posts: 71 | Hey... jst to let people no a friend of mine has had his paypal account hacked as a result of the above, they tried to transfer funds from his bank account into his paypal account, presumeably to then transfer the money on again into a further account. Luckly for him he didnt have the funds in his bank account and it got canceled from the bank, was quite a large transaction aswell. If anyone uses the same password for there steam account and paypal account i would probs change them asap | ||
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| *HmS*Cardinal |
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I am root. If you see me laughing, you‘d better have a backup! Registered Member #1489 Joined: Sat Nov 11 2006Location: Münster (Westphalia), Germany Posts: 1216 | I recommend to make up a new password for "every" service on the internet, You register with. If money is involved: at least 12 to 20 characters long, characters and number and special characters mixed as well as mixed and unpredictable capitalization. I use a tool to keep track of all the passwords: www.keepass.info It is free and available for nearly every platform, including Apple IOS and Android. | ||
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