Steam Database Hacked! Possible Credit Card Theft

Earlier today Valve announced that the Steam forums were hacked last Sunday, but didn't realize also their database. Their database consisting of personal information, encrypted credit card information, and emails.

Although Valve states they've been investigating and haven't found any misuse yet. So while they haven't seen anything, you should still be careful, as it is possible. The intruders could have taken information, but they're not sure yet. We don't need another incident as bad as the PlayStation attack. For now keep in mind the Steam Forums are down. To be safe I'd recommend  to check your credit card activity and change your Steam password. While it's not a definite they have your information, it never hurts to be safe.



The message released earlier by Gabe Newell is below. You can access this by going to the forum:

"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."