Steam Database Compromise

[Yennage]

Hey guys,

I occasionally go on the steam forums, mainly in the sorta level design section but since the start of the week the forums have been down and displaying a message that it's for maintenance and that they will be back online asap, however, when I checked em today I found a new message stating that the forums had been defaced and, as well as this, one of the steam databases was compromised. Because this database contained forum usernames and passwords (thankfully not in plain text) they're advising that anyone with a steam forum account change their password (I think they're forcing a change as soon as it's back online).

Just figured I'd post because I know a few of you guys use steam too

Here's the original text:

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.

 

[Godspeedz]

Thanks for the update! It's sad that this stuff happens, but we should be changing our passwords once a month anyways. Now I have to remember what my last password was...

 

[RefinedCode]

Yay i used paypal!

 

[CommanderFluffy]

 

[kking1]

lolololol

 

[Cpt.Carnage]

not to worried about my steam password being cracked, the identifying option that locks it down to specific systems is pretty sound.

Still it sucks.