Valve confirms steam hack

The recent Steam hack may have compromised users' credit card numbers and other personal information, according to a message sent to Steam users from Gabe Newell, head of Valve. The company is certain the hackers gained access to a database with this encrypted information, but don't know if they took it or will be able to crack its encryption. Earlier this week, the Steam forums were taken offline due to some vandalization by the video game hacks website fkn0wned. A message on the forums noted they were down for maintenance, but it turns they had received uninvited guests ealier after all.

The compromised database held information such as user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, e-mail addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information, according to Newell. Newell writes that the company does not have evidence that the encrypted credit card numbers or personal info were taken by the intruders, and the company is "still investigating.

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.

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Keanu Reeves told Stephen Colbert on Wednesday which of those celebrities accompanied their signature with a cheeky "F you! Close this content. Read full article. More content below. Gabe Newell. Jeff Hughes. November 11, , AM. In this article:. Story continues. As this was an important issue that needed to be resolved on Valve's end, one employee, known as JonP, thanked drbrix for his contribution and confirmed this was a critical issue that Valve would look into.

A spokesman from Valve commented on the matter with The Daily Swig. Regardless, thanks to this hacker, a Steam marketplace crisis has been averted.

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