InBlack wrote on Feb 13, 2012, 03:56:
Erm could this have anything to do with the huge security breach that happened with Steam last Friday? You know the one that exposed that Valve keeps all your credit card information for years. (Why the fuck would they even do that? Its an invitation for a disaster)
Dunno what you are talking about. The steam forum issue happened a few months ago. The recent announcement was about the ongoing investigation from that turning up that a backup file was also accessed.
In all of the cases for steam the personal info was encrypted and/or hashed, except for I think the steam login name and email. Proper hashes aren't exactly usable lol.
Unlike sony that had all that stored in PLAIN TEXT, and had to offer a free year of identity theft services since the problem was so bad.