Vi kunne mandag fortælle, at Valves Steam-forum var taget ned og ude af drift. Der gik ikke længe før flere brugere havde rapporteret om noget besynderlige emails udsendt via Valve fra hacker-gruppen, “fkn0wned”. Valve erkender nu, at det står langt være til end “bare” deres forumkonti og Gabe Newell adresserer nu brugerne direkte med en personlig besked. Brugernavne, passwords, købshistorik og vigtigst, kreditkortoplysninger (krypterede) er blevet stjålet og Valve beder dig holde øje med din bankkonto for en sikkerheds skyld.

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.

15 KOMMENTARER

  1. #5:
    “We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums.”

    Har du læst nyheden?

    EDIT: #6 beat me to it.

  2. #6 og #7: ja, det er true, men de skriver længere nede at steam-konti so-far ikke er komprimitteret.

    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).

    anyways, det er noget skidt uanset.

  3. Heldigvis bruger jeg kun det kodeord til diverse andre ikke vigtige sider som f.eks her. Hvor man ikke køber noget osv. Så ikke så galt hvis de får fat i det password.

    Det er godt forum og steam konti ikke er linket sammen må man sige.

  4. #11 Nej de kan ikke sige noget med sikkerhed, men selv hvis de har den “Salt” som bliver brugt i krypteringen så tager det noget tid at knække AES256.

    Selvfølgelig hvis man har passwordet “aaaaaaaaa” så går det betydeligt hurtigere.

    Det er selvfølgelig kun hvis vi antager de har saltet, ellers er det praktisk talt umuligt.

  5. Hvis man har steam guard slået til, burde det ikke være noget problem mht. ens steam konto, men det er aldrig en skidt ide at få et nyt visa/master card udstedt.