Steam's Database Hacked, Info Possibly Stolen
Sunday Valve's Steam platform was accessed by hackers who may have run off with the personal information of all registered users, including credit card numbers.
Valve Software's Gabe Newell sent out a message to all Steam users around an hour ago warning about a hack into the database and the possible theft of personal information. Here's the entire message:
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.
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I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
Gabe.
Kevin Parrish has over a decade of experience as a writer, editor, and product tester. His work focused on computer hardware, networking equipment, smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and other internet-connected devices. His work has appeared in Tom's Hardware, Tom's Guide, Maximum PC, Digital Trends, Android Authority, How-To Geek, Lifewire, and others.
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Didnt we already go through this with Sony?
yea but it was more like, SURPRISE WE GOT HACKED LOL! -
ben850 Khimera2000Didnt we already go through this with Sony?Reply
Unlike Sony, Steam's data is encrypted with AES256. These hackers actually have a better chance at getting laid than to crack the data they stole. -
unksol Khimera2000Didnt we already go through this with Sony?Reply
Um... no... the got your email, and game purchase history. And billing address. Passwords and credit cards are encrypted. So... they got a whole lot of nothing.... hardly sony -
unksol Now if origin had gotten hacked I am sure your credit card and account would be up for sale.Reply -
ben850 thesnappyfingershmm, I have not received an email, but I'm not part of the forum.Reply
I got my message when starting Steam today. -
AbdullahG unksolNow if origin had gotten hacked I am sure your credit card and account would be up for sale.EA already does that job with Origin...Reply