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Offline Caradir

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Steam Forums Hacked
« on: November 10, 2011, 09:36:31 AM »
Seems Steam Forums have been down for a few days having been hacked by a group linked to  a game hacking site.

If you receive spam from steampowered promoting said site, its probably best not ot open it.

Steam have not made comment yet about this.

Just another security fuck up from a game related company.
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Re: Steam Forums Hacked
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2011, 09:58:58 AM »
Quote from: Caradir on November 10, 2011, 09:36:31 AM
Seems Steam Forums have been down for a few days having been hacked by a group linked to  a game hacking site.

If you receive spam from steampowered promoting said site, its probably best not ot open it.

Steam have not made comment yet about this.

Just another security fuck up from a game related company.

Did wonder why their 24hrs was taking so long..
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Re: Steam Forums Hacked
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2011, 10:02:05 AM »
apparently Monday evening the front page for the forum was defaced with links to the game hack site, however no details forthcoming in the world of tinfoil internet hats makes people jittery.
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"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money." Josiah Stamp (Governor Bank of England 1928-41)

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Re: Steam Forums Hacked
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2011, 10:10:59 AM »
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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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"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money." Josiah Stamp (Governor Bank of England 1928-41)
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