Steam Databases Hacked

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I just quit Garry's mod and this update news window came up
Quote from: Steam Update News
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.
Anyone have anymore info on this?

I dont know but does this mean we might get free stuff in return?  :cookieMonster:

holy stuff i never thought this would happen to steam

Just saw C418 post about this on Twitter. Already changed my password.

Luckily I don't use steam forums.



holy stuff i never thought this would happen to steam
Gabe couldn't catch the criminals as they walked in and took everything  :cookieMonster:

Gabe couldn't catch the criminals as they walked in and took everything  :cookieMonster:
not unless they were wearing cake hats


Does this only affect people who have a forum account?

Does this only affect people who have a forum account?

they aren't sure

i changed some things just to be safe

give me links and info and stuff

This goes beyond my comprehension. Oh god i'm having a heart attack. Somebody help me!
I AM NOT OLD!

If this keeps happening the safest plan is to leave the internet.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/