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Steam forums hacked!!!! That's why they've been down so many days.

http://www.gamefront.com/steam-forums-down-after-hackers-reportedly-hijack-them/



screenshot of hacking:

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And nothing of much value was lost. Not too mention "hacking" the forums is akin to defacing a poster :p Why does every article or picture of this not blot out the name of the website being advertised?
 
I forgot that accounts may have been compromised too, which is important to know about. Although I have not heard anything about that yet.

However, when you register for an account on the Steam forum it tells you in big letters not to use the same name or password as your Steam account (since they are entirely separate and forums are not as secure) which is also common sense.
 
Apparently that's what really happened, so says The Gabe.

November 10th, 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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And ninja'd. Okay that was a worse attack than I thought. Good thing I have different passwords for important accounts anyway. EDIT: Plus it appears that Steam throughly encrypted account information and passwords for Steam, so anything that was stolen is probably going to be very difficult to decrypt, if at all. So as long as you change your password and have Steamguard enabled you're probably safe.
 
Maniacal said:
And ninja'd. Okay that was a worse attack than I thought. Good thing I have different passwords for important accounts anyway.
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Ninja'd by 3 days!
 
No point to it now, all you can get is Valve games and coal. :p
 
Terreria. :wallbash:
 
If my computer wasn't a piece of garbage, I'd be interested. :p
 
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