Steam Hacked (Not this shit again)

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http://kotaku.com/5858473/steam-hacked-valve-investigating-possible-credit-card-theft

No need to worry just yet, I guess. But why the hell would my credit card info be in the same database as the user forums? Did Sony design that or some shit? Edit: nevermind, they got past the forums and into other shit.

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.
 
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You know, the only time I put my CC info on Steam was to do the Japan Relief Fund thingy, and now this makes me upset because even for that one purchase, my info is now in an eternal database forever vulnerable to attack even though I will probably never buy anything from steam... ever. :rolleyes:
 
Now that I got back and look, it almost seems that whatever your last used payment method was is what is saved. I don't know if any previous payment methods are removed completely or not, but since I added to my Steam Wallet last time (using my card), and I bought a couple of things with my wallet, I can't choose my card without re-entering it...so I may not need to worry either.

Regardless, I'll probably go the safe route and request a new card.
 
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