Steam Forum Downtime Follow-up; Steam Also Breached

Valve confirms indications from earlier this week that the downtime on the Steam Users' Forums was the result of a break-in, revealing that the Steam service itself also suffered an intrusion. Here is a message from Valve's Gabe Newell explaining the situation:
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.
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Regardless is he that wrong? People bitched up a storm about Sony, yet when it's valve its another case of Oh it's valve, they can do no wrong. The hypocrisy involving certain dev/publishers around here is just comical.

Just like in politics, it's not so much what someone says as why he or she is saying it.

Riley, no matter what name he chooses, has a clear obsessive agenda to verbally lambast Steam and Valve at every possible opportunity. He is an obsessive hate-spindoctor who believes Valve can do nothing right. Riley lacks the ability to objectively view any case concerning Valve or Steam, blinded by his hateful obsession as he is. So any point he makes, regardless of the apparent wisdom behind his words, needs to be viewed through that prism. 'nin' seems pretty sure his anti-Valve crusade has to do with his employment by a rival studio, and I am inclined to agree.

Personally, while disappointed (and truth be told, a tad worried) by thie news of the hack, I'm not all that bent out of shape about it, nor was I with Sony's, because shit happens, and it's impossible to prepare for every contingency. Nothing is asshole-proof because they are always building better assholes.
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