Out of Pod Experience

I got this after playing Homefront tonight:


"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."

I would highly recommend changing your passwords and credit card information.

Yup, not liking this, changed my password already, going to call the bank tomorrow.

It will be months before they start using credit card numbers, or sell them, so you have a little time, but it will be pretty bad I think since there are so many people that have bought stuff off steam, CoD crowd and BF3 crowd in particular. Even if the stuff is encrypted, doesn't mean they can't crack it.

They likely do not know yet. At least, this is presuming that they are telling us as soon as they discovered the incident.

Just saw it, just changed my details. Honestly the straw that breaks the camels back at this point, it was getting old dealing with having the client manifest itself as a resource hogging store front to even use the software you buy while they pocket huge dividends. Guess they didn't spend much of that on actually keeping stuff locked down just like sony.

Going to avoid using steam like the plague now.

Encrypted and salted. Makes a world of difference adding a salt to it. Hopefully they used a two part salt, one purely in the applications, and one in the db, but even just a db based one helps.

Thanks for the heads up Barakkus.

This is why I never ever press the "save pw or credit card information" and use different pw's for everything.
Who would have know beeing paranoid finally paid off.

And this is why forcing people to use steam is bad, Bethesda.

PayPal FTW.... Until they get hacked....

I predict a number of account compromises for EVE since a number of people got EVE through Steam.

They have been hacked in the past.