Steam hackers that recently the forum offline, managed to get appear to be credit card details of customers to have captured. According to Valve, there are still no evidence found that the data are abused.
The hackers obtained next to the forum also have access to a database in which various personal data are stored in addition to encrypted credit card information were usernames, hashed and salted passwords for the forum, details about purchased games and billing addresses for them. Although abuse has not yet been identified shows Valve ceo Gabe Newell to the hack are still under investigation, whereby it is advisable to suspicious credit card transactions to pay attention.
Valve has not announced how many Steam-users ‘ personal data are stolen. It is also unclear to what credit card exactly. According to Valve, there is no evidence that the credit card numbers. It remains possible to use the same password on Steam login; only for the forum, all passwords were reset. However, it is advised to use the password for the Steam account to change.
There were just a few days ago rumors that the Steam forum hacked. Valve gave then that the forum was offline for maintenance. The hackers did it Monday already to penetrate, but Valve had not yet been made public that there was a hack. At the forumhack was a reference to Fkn0wned.com posted, but the site denied later any involvement in the hack, so it’s still unclear who the perpetrators are.
