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On November 11 2011 11:51 auTo.ckc wrote:
If a perfect 10 woman walked in front of some unsavory characters with her ass swinging side to side, boobs hanging out, and had a perfect face, then she'd probabllyyyyyyyyy get raped.
Same thing here. Dota beta keys = gorgeous girl. Hackers = unsavory characters -_-
What the fuck is your analogy?
I hope the don't piss off anyone in the gaming community that wants to find them because 4 chan will find you!
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Glad I'm poor and that bank account has no money in it.
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Hmm i wonder if this is why my bank called yesterday and told me that my card may or may not be compromised and that they'll be disabling it and getting me a new one.
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This is pretty bad. When I try to change password, it says "Steam cannot currently process your request. Please try again later."
No idea what to do.
EDIT: Turns out I just wrote the wrong password. Lol.
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hopefully it was only for dota2 beta keys, people that hack for cash are straight up scum, get a fuckin job.
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i always hated steam anyway, good thing i never used it 
/dance
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Ugh the one place I buy stuff online T.T
Guess hackers these days are just too far ahead of the security systems.
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The credit card numbers are stored in government/military grade 256 bit AES encryption. With todays computing power, the sun would go supernova before anybody obtained even a single credit card number. This isn't like when Sony was hacked and there was credit card info in plain text files.
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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.
Thanks for the advice but are there any downsides/inconveniences to that?
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First ps3. now pc.
xbox fanboys gonna go wiiiiiild.
Anyway, this sucks. alot.
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On November 11 2011 15:50 JieXian wrote:Show nested quote +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. Thanks for the advice but are there any downsides/inconveniences to that?
re entering your credit card data every time you buy something?
you know what this means right? Free games, woo! cough 'em up Gabe!
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If only security was truly as simple as Ctrl+Alt+Del. 
Just got home, gonna be changing passwords pretty much now. Good thing it's an old, old password that I've not used for anything since circa 2008.
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Well this sucks.
I have a Steam account with a credit card attached. Given that the data was encrypted, it should be OK. Breaking encryption is generally an extremely hard thing to do. Standard encryption protocols are in fact virtually impossible to crack over the lifetime of the universe.
However, one part of the article didn't make sense:
"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." Newell wrote.
If Steam accounts were not compromised, but only the Steam forum accounts (which are separate) were, then why was a database with encrypted passwords, purchases, billing addresses and credit card details stolen. This should be tied to the Steam account, not the forum account.
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time to change PW i guess,
never save payment options so not to worried , but i'll monitor it to be sure.
thanks for the heads up as i wasn't aware of the hack.
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On November 11 2011 11:05 Neb1000 wrote:
If they have the encrypted credit card info they can't do anything with it without decypting it first, so as long as they didn't get the key it's all good in the hood.
Valve doesn't even have the keys to decrypt the CC details themselves, so that shouldn't ever happen.
It's bad enough that once again customer data got lost, but at least the payment information shouldn't be of much use to the attacker.
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mannn a few hackers ruin everything for people.
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People really should step down their paranoa a bit imo if an event like this change their view on having credit card info at steam or some other high profile coorporation like Blizzard as well.
Hackers have gotten into pentagon, so even they aren't safe from attacks, just having money. period. is a risk at SOME level, if you have it in cash in your house you can be robbed, if you have it in a bank they can either be robbed physicly or even be hacked, and yes for those who wonder, even banks can be hacked.
Steam is definetly high profile enough to trust with credit card information.
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I really don't mind. Whatever that gets stolen will be replaced by Valve for sure. I just hope Valve gives us some free games or something to undo the negative publicity.
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Well, unless they also stole my phone they won't be able to use my bank account. If they got that information in the first place. And I don't pay with credit cards.
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What a shame. Luckily I was using a different password for the attached paypal account, even if the email is the same.
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