Steam hacked. Credit card and personal data compromised (Keep discussion here)

http://kotaku.com/5858473/steam-hacked-valve-investigating-possible-credit-card-theft

If you have a Steam account stop reading and go change your password!

Steam boss Gabe Newell just revealed Steam has suffered a hacker attack and personal data, including credit card details are likely to have been compromised.

It's still unclear how much data has been stolen, an investigation is currently in progress. Newell urges an immediate password change and close monitoring of your credit card activity. Do it.

Mod: Stickied. Please keep discussion here.

Mod Edit number two: Here's a quick guide on how to change your password, e-mail, and security question, courtesy of Daavpuke. You know -- just in case you need it.

Anyone that wants to change their password, follow these steps: Open your Steam client > Steam tab > Settings > Second button "Change Password or Secret Question"

Just saw this aswell.

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.

This came from Daavpuke, a fellow Gamespot forum regular:

Anyone that wants to change their password, follow these steps: Open your Steam client > Steam tab > Settings > Second button "Change Password or Secret Question"

Anyone that is using Steam right now ought to follow the instructions above ASAP, so that they can avoid this really quick!

Well, looks like we'll be getting free games when this is all done and over with. :cool:

Joke aside though, this really sucks.

Just, hypothetically, imagine hackers planting a trojan in the unlock download for Skyrim. It would be the cyberattack of the century. lol.

This came from Daavpuke, a fellow Gamespot forum regular:

Anyone that wants to change their password, follow these steps: Open your Steam client > Steam tab > Settings > Second button "Change Password or Secret Question"

Anyone that is using Steam right now ought to follow the instructions above ASAP, so that they can avoid this really quick!

Metamania

Hey, Black_Knight? I'm gonna throw this little tip into your post, make it more easily seen. Hope you don't mind.

Wiped my card, changed pass

It was probably one of those SteamPunks :P

With thier top hats and weird clothes.

Anyways I changed my pass.

Good thing I wiped out my credit card info. I did it back when PSN was also hacked because I was afraid that Steam would be hacked as well in the future. And I guess I was right so that's good for me. I also just changed my password as well.

Thanks for the heads up

Wiped my card, changed pass

Lief_Ericson

Just, hypothetically, imagine hackers planting a trojan in the unlock download for Skyrim. It would be the cyberattack of the century. lol.

PetJel

Anyway yeah it just shows its not just PSN that can get hacked. Even the mighty steam can too. But considering the sheer amount of downloads that happen on a regular basis there and all the credit card info accessible its kinda scary

Ho[QUOTE="Lief_Ericson"]

Wiped my card, changed pass

SavageKantus

if you never used a credit card there then you have no worries. I too have never used a credit card on it. I just got demos and such

GRRRR How dare they, they suck! Protest! I will never buy a valve product again!!! Worst company ever! SUE!!! (and that is how this thread would go if it were Sony)dvader654

Pretty much. Crazy how who the victim is can change people's response, eh?

So um is this another case of poor security measures? Honestly, with all these hack attacks I feel like quiting the internet as a whole. Like really, no where seems safe on the internetz.

If you've never used the Steam forums, you should be fine, right?ExoticAnimal

I think so. Probably best to change your password anyway, just to be safe.

[QUOTE="dvader654"]GRRRR How dare they, they suck! Protest! I will never buy a valve product again!!! Worst company ever! SUE!!! (and that is how this thread would go if it were Sony)c_rake

Pretty much. Crazy how who the victim is can change people's response, eh?

I use paypal. My stored credit card details has expired a few months ago and my credit card never worked with Steam.

[QUOTE="ExoticAnimal"]If you've never used the Steam forums, you should be fine, right?c_rake

I think so. Probably best to change your password anyway, just to be safe.

I've changed so many passwords in the last few months, cant even remember what my Steam password is.

Im hoping I get HL Episode 1 and 2 for free out of this. Would like Crysis 1 and 2 for free but thats not likely.

EDIT:Actually, I forgot my password, so I attempted to have steam send my login details to my email, but the site is saying it has no record of that username. The problem with that is I am logged in right now.

I see we are doing our best to hide this thread. :Pdvader654

Hey -- don't look at me. I didn't pin it.

[QUOTE="dvader654"]I see we are doing our best to hide this thread. :Pc_rake

Hey -- don't look at me. I didn't pin it.

Luckily, I found no unusual activity on my account. I changed my password anyway to be on the safe side.

[QUOTE="dvader654"]GRRRR How dare they, they suck! Protest! I will never buy a valve product again!!! Worst company ever! SUE!!! (and that is how this thread would go if it were Sony)c_rake

Pretty much. Crazy how who the victim is can change people's response, eh?

Thanks for the heads up changed my pssword and removed my credit card. But i have no libilityon any unauthorized credit charges from my bank so i'm fine if they got my card.

tsk tsk. I will be changing two passwords since I have 2 steam accounts.

But the files they took were encrypted, and they don't know if they cracked the encryption.Loegi

[QUOTE="Loegi"]But the files they took were encrypted, and they don't know if they cracked the encryption.Black_Knight_00

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"][QUOTE="Loegi"]But the files they took were encrypted, and they don't know if they cracked the encryption.Loegi

I changed my password as soon as I heard about this. I'm glad I don't have a card linked to my account, paypal FTW.

Just a heads-up: I'm un-sticking this. It's been long enough for the message to get out. No point in keeping this up anymore.