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10 November 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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Thanks for the update baneling. Sad to see that people have nothing better to do with their life that they have to go ruin something online :thumbdown:
 
Everyone should have steam guard enabled. This forces you to authorize a computer whenever you sign on to it for the first time via email. It might be a slight hassle but in these instances it is 100% worth it.
 
why cant these hackers hack for good, like in the movie "hackers"? Be a zero cool not a plague, oh yea "mess with the best die like the rest" lul.
 
They got encrypted passwords and encrypted credit card information. I wouldn't be too worried about it. Passwords can probably be cracked if they have access to the salt, though I'm not sure if they even do, but I doubt the credit card information can be stolen. Better safe than sorry though so watch your credit card statements and change your passwords.
 
Yeah, I saw this as well, changed my password just to be safe.
 
PhaseXero said:
Everyone should have steam guard enabled. This forces you to authorize a computer whenever you sign on to it for the first time via email. It might be a slight hassle but in these instances it is 100% worth it.
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I have used Steam Guard ever since it was available.

Why people would do this is beyond me. :(
 
But I am very sure they can't get into you if you have steam guard!

But it's so scarryyyyy what, noobs can do!
 
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