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Deozaan:
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.-http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/
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wraith808:
great.  I just changed all of my passwords for the sony thing.  now... again?  even though the forum password isn't my password to steam or any of my other secure passwords... why take the chance.  *sigh*

Deozaan:
At least the data was encrypted.

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.
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Obviously this doesn't mean that everything is safe, but it also doesn't mean that everything is unsafe.

I changed all my passwords to unique passwords after the Gawker fiasco, so I'm not too concerned about the damage done here. Just gotta change my Steam password and the forum password once the forums are back up.

Also, I don't store any credit card details with Steam, so no concern for me there, either.

rgdot:
Not a gamer so have no idea how they function....Steam themselves shouldn't be storing credit card numbers, encrypted or otherwise

Deozaan:
Steam themselves shouldn't be storing credit card numbers, encrypted or otherwise-rgdot (November 10, 2011, 05:55 PM)
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:huh:

They're an online store, and lots of online stores remember payment details to make it easier for you to buy stuff from them.

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