user names meh, passwords hashed and salted should be fairly secure, game purchases meh, email addresses meh, billing addresses meh.
"encrypted" credit card information could of course mean anything, so this *might* be an issue.
well no problem for me though, i don't pay via credit card over here, you rarely need one, there's almost always some alternative to pay through bank collection. in my case, i need to confirm these payments with a TAN-number i get sent to my mobile phone, so no-one besides me myself really can use that. credit cards for ppl around here just cause unnecessary (although not very high) costs to own them. (they would still be convenient sometimes of course, but meh)
On November 11 2011 08:01 R1CH wrote: This is why it's always a good idea to un-check any "Save my payment information" check boxes. Even supposedly reputable websites can have bad security.
Wow, Gabe Newell jumped on this quick. all the more reason to respect him and his ship. <3 Gabe. Hopefully nobody loses any assets. Such a quick response allows for people to act fast to secure their assets and credit. Thank you Mr Newell.
write your credit card information in again when you have to pay again don't be lazy and then you don't have to worry about this because people will get hacked even the best security have the big flaw that is some dude who has no idea but still a password gets social engineered this will always happen just type in your credit card information again every time i know mine by heart by now takes god damn 2 seconds
On November 11 2011 08:01 R1CH wrote: This is why it's always a good idea to un-check any "Save my payment information" check boxes. Even supposedly reputable websites can have bad security.
So glad I follow this rule. Although I can't work out how to do it on Amazon so thats got my stuff
On November 11 2011 08:01 R1CH wrote: This is why it's always a good idea to un-check any "Save my payment information" check boxes. Even supposedly reputable websites can have bad security.
On November 11 2011 07:57 Craton wrote: I'm assuming Valve isn't as dumb as Sony and doesn't keep their records in plain text.
On November 11 2011 07:56 Proof. wrote: At least they encrypt their data. I think PSN was straight up plain text.
Can we just be clear that this is almost the exact same information that was leaked in the Sony hacking? Sony leaked secret question/answers, but in both cases, passwords were hashed. In both cases, the credit card information was not leaked, but precautionary measures were encouraged
On November 11 2011 07:56 Proof. wrote: At least they encrypt their data. I think PSN was straight up plain text.
Can we just be clear that this is almost the exact same information that was leaked in the Sony hacking? Sony leaked secret question/answers, but in both cases, passwords were hashed. In both cases, the credit card information was not leaked, but precautionary measures were encouraged
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over here, you rarely need one, there's almost always some alternative to pay through bank collection. in my case, i need to confirm these payments with a TAN-number i get sent to my mobile phone, so no-one besides me myself really can use that. credit cards for ppl around here just cause unnecessary (although not very high) costs to own them. (they would still be convenient sometimes of course, but meh)
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