Steams been hacked.... *sigh

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**Vulkan_He'stan**

just found this on my update news,
This recent hack wave is really starting to get on my nerves now

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.

**AvatarForm**

Nothing is safe on the interwebz

**Melissia**

I'm glad m yforum password is different from my steam password (both accounts, actually, I have probably a dozen passwords when all is said and done...).

**bombboy1252**

Well, I'm screwed

**KingCracker**

I dont use steam, but that still is annoying as hell to read. I was sick of hearing about these type of hacks, before PSN was hacked, that one just made me want to beat those Aholes to within an inch of their lives. Hope none of you guys are affected by it

**kamakazepanda**

Well it all depends on whether this is just steam forum members or all steam users, i hope it's the former. I ussually try not to save any of my card info but i doubt it really matters.

**sarpedons-right-hand**

This sucks... Have these ****s got nothing better to do with thier lives?

Hope no one is adversely affected by this. It's a horrible feeling knowing that someone, somewhere, has your account details...I know, it's happened to me.

**thenoobbomb**

Gabe Newell has looted the Fridge,albeit the attempts of Soldier, Spy and Heavy. *sigh*