Steam Forums Get Nailed By Hackers

techtard · Nov 8, 2011

Roph said:
It would be a problem with vBulletin, not steam's own platform. Not only that, but steam runs their forums separately to their steam platform.

Lastly, vB, like all good software, encrypts/hashes your passwords. Compromising the db might net you email addresses or private messages, but you won't get everyone's passwords without some serious supercomputer time.

Maybe this is what the bitcoin project is all about. They could be using all that processing power to crack hashes and decrypt all the data that they are compromising.

Maybe I'm just paranoid.

PVTCaboose1337 · Nov 8, 2011

techtard said:
Maybe this is what the bitcoin project is all about. They could be using all that processing power to crack hashes and decrypt all the data that they are compromising.

Bitcoin essentially does this, but with its own files, not ones people feed it. You try to create a valid block by mining, and then if it is valid you win the grand prize of 50 BTC, but if you don't win you lose, and the computer keeps trying. Think of it as a massive brute force program that is trying to find the next block.

erocker · Nov 10, 2011

Just got this when I logged in today:

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.

Deleted member 67555 · Nov 10, 2011

I just changed my password to a 20 character password...that wont do any good If STEAm can't get a handle on their shiznit

MilkyWay · Nov 10, 2011

Doesn't matter how strong a password is if they have it, if you change it to anything they pretty much cant log in unless they get the new one.
EDIT: For the record i didn't get a news popup and i didn't see any news about the forum hack in the news tab on steam.

KainXS · Nov 10, 2011

my steam account was hacked 2 days ago and my gmail got hacked too(same password(bad idea))

i knew it because I couldn't log into steam and I went into my gmail, and it said some crap about an unknown ip address.

steam changed everything back though and I had to change all my passwords

change your passwords people.

DannibusX · Nov 10, 2011

It really sucks that this happened to Valve. Kudos to Gabe for coming clean.

qubit · Nov 10, 2011

I'm writing a news story on this as we speak.

Make sure to change your Steam account password. I've just done mine.

erocker, thanks for the update back there. :toast:

MilkyWay · Nov 10, 2011

Ah okay you see the message when you go to the actual forums, i tried to log in just to see if i made an account fortunately i hadn't.

A news "story" lol.

qubit · Nov 11, 2011

Frontpage story about the Steam account hack now posted: http://www.techpowerup.com/154947/Steam-Hack-More-Severe-Than-Thought-Change-Your-Password-NOW.html

Please make further posts about this in that thread

ShiBDiB · Nov 11, 2011

erocker said:
We don%u2019t have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.

That sounds more like them just covering their ass then anything... Forum accounts and steam accounts arent linked anyway.

One more reason to use paypal

chinmi · Nov 13, 2011

they hack forum password right ?

and since i don't make any steam forum account that should be save for me right ?

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Steam Forums Get Nailed By Hackers

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