Valve Confirms Steam Security Breach

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After a day or two of speculation, Valve has officially confirmed to the public that the Steam database suffered a security breach earlier this week. Valve Software co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell issued a statement to members letting them know what happened and if there might some concerns about the security of their Steam accounts. The take-away for Steam account holders is that passwords were "hashed and salted" and credit card information was encrypted. Still Newell cautions Steam users to pay attention to their account activity. The full statement is below:

"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."

As Newell noted in his statement, it never hurts to change your password. In fact changing your password regularly and not using the same password at multiple sites is always a good idea.


source:

Valve Confirms Steam Security Breach | GamePolitics

Valve Steam service experiences security breach | VentureBeat


nagka-at*y na jud ning mga hacker

[negative_black03]

although wala koy credit card info gibutang or nagamit ever sakong steam account, they could still disassociate all my Games for Windows/ Steam games di ba? if ever... thanks sa info

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although wala koy credit card info gibutang or nagamit ever sakong steam account, they could still disassociate all my Games for Windows/ Steam games di ba? if ever... thanks sa info

mypa giagi na lang lagi nila tanan payment option sa paypal ky sa mag tuga2x sila ug gunit anang credit card info nga yanoyanohon lang pag decrypt sa mga hackers ky huyang ky ilang securities basin ma ika 2 hinoon sila blizzard ana ilang kalaki madugay na makiha ky wa nila protectaha ang consumer from hackers.

[icecube]

Last year pa ni brad nahitabo, if i'm not mistaken, naa na ni na post last year after it happens.

Look at the dates, LoL.