Valve Announces Massive Steam Server Intrusion

SKYMTL writes "Valve has revealed that hackers have gained access to the Steam database and have pulled a variety of information. A statement from Gabe Newell reads in part: '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."

Re:Proper back end hashing and encryption?

[ackthpt]

Awesome. Sounds like they were doing things right.

Yeah, sounds like they did better than most businesses *cough* Sony *cough* who probably kept everything in a big ol' text file.

which was named readme.txt

Re:Proper back end hashing and encryption?

[pixelpusher220]

please, they aren't that stupid.

They called it 'dontreadme.txt'

Re:Hilarity

[bloodhawk]

The guy has just admitted they stuffed up. they had a responsibility to protect your data that they force you to provide. This is the equivalent of being raped in a police station and then being happy that the cops admitted it happened and are very sorry about it.

hah

[geekoid]

Secretly stabbed in the back, huh Valve? See Spies are overpowered and DO indeed, SUCK. Jerkwads.

Accidental irony

[Shillo]

Today's daily deal on Steam is: Day of Defeat.

Couldn't have made a better choice myself.

Re:Hilarity

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah... it's more like getting roofied, and then being told about it 4 days later.

Re:Proper back end hashing and encryption?

[BenJCarter]

"People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people" Sorry for off topic. Sig made me lol!

Whew!

[Bobfrankly1]

Good thing I just followed the e-mail that just arrived and changed my password then! I'm fortunate to have found it in my junk mail. Weird that Steam is requiring social security numbers to change passwords now.

Re:hah

[Bobfrankly1]

Secretly stabbed in the back, huh Valve? See Spies are overpowered and DO indeed, SUCK. Jerkwads.

You're just upset *backstab* because you have difficulty *MEDIC!!!! backstab* spy-checking as a *backstab, cloak* pyro. Perhaps if you stopped standing in one place *backstab, backstab, miss, backstab* and developed your pyro techniques, you would find spies to be *sapper, backstab, die from being on fire* easy prey.

Hat?

[jjshoe]

Do I get a hat for having to go through this?

Oblig Half-Life 3 delay...

[dstyle5]

I wonder how long this will delay the release of Half-Life 3? Or Half-Life 2 Episode 3? Left 4 Dead 3? Portal 3?

/oblig game delay post

Hmm, thats alot of 3 games Valve could be working on....

Re:Hey gabe

[rapidreload]

Hell Valve could kill kittens and use their blood to fuel their servers

Wait... are you saying kitteh sacrifices are NOT part of standard server administration? Shit, I'm not quite sure what my boss is going to say when he finds out how I run things...