Steam Hacked

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

Hm. I haven't bought anything from Steam with a credit card in at least a year, maybe longer. Do you suppose my credit card number is still on file there?

If you saved your credit card information with them, I imagine it is still there regardless of how much time has passed. I imagine unsaved credit card information isn't kept there, but with hacking, not even a computer wizard would know!

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

it's not worth the risk.

The risk that you might, one day, have to politely request a new credit and/or debit card?

[Ramary]

Hack sucks. Not as bad as say the PSN fiasco, at least so far. Since the hack happened within the forums, the exploit is in the forums and not steam itself, so that will be the thing that is down for awhile. Also it seems that valve already had measures in place to protect our info, instead of say Sony putting everything on text files. I changed my password just to be sure, but even then I am pretty sure steam guard will block anyone trying to get in.

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Krylo

The risk that you might, one day, have to politely request a new credit and/or debit card?

Well pretty much everyone who has had their identity stolen says it's a total nightmare to get the charges on the card reversed, the damage to your credit reversed, etc. Like a nightmarish merry-go-round of suckage. So yeah I tend not to store my credit card info on these websites either. I buy things so infrequently that typing in a 12 digit number every order doesn't seem like that big of a hassle.

Like insofar as I'm annoyed my password might be compromised (because like a dummy I tend to use the same one on more than one online website), I'm at least pretty much assured I don't have to worry about my credit card info getting stolen because I never stored it on Steam's server.

[akaSM]

It's a good thing that I used my oldest password in the Steam forums. I only use that password in those sites where I'm too lazy to set up anything else.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Still no charges on my credit card, but I have had to rest my password a few times apparently due to bad login attempts (this is with US Bank for clarification). It's a hassle but it seems to be a sign that they don't have enough info about me to get any further than this. I still wish I knew what else I could do to improve my security there. I've also altered my Steam settings to deregister any computer but my main (which really only meant the laptop) and not to save my account credentials.

[Aldurin]

Changed my password and I'm keeping an eye on my debit card. Also, everyone should immediately activate steamguard and use the "deauthorize all other computers" option to make sure that intruders are locked out.

Bummer to hear that hacking is getting more rampant. Thanks for the heads up.

EDIT: Fortunately it looks like steam flushed any saved credit card info for added safety. I'm glad that they're on top of this.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

I will say that Valve seems to have been handling the situation quite well, at least compared to the shitstorms that blew up around Sony and the PSN network. Have we heard anything yet about who did it and if they posted the info somewhere?

[Fifthfiend]

Yeah like I gotta get my password changed still and all but there's comfort in knowing that it's Valve dealing with this and not "durr let's store passwords on our server in plaintext durr a durr gnur hurrr blur wagurr hurr durr" PSN

[Arcanum]

Well that, and they're telling everyone right away instead of waiting a week or so before letting people know their credit card info might've been stolen.