World of Warcraft™

@Gralan: Not everyone bought authenticators despite enticement.

@Moggy: http://goo.gl/9Ce53 there you go. :)

@Matban: probly should say in a form that you have a universal password

@Matban: I second this ^

@Zachiri: they don't give a rats !@# about other companies. there is a simple reason behind everything blizzard does - money. By warning customers of this possible account theft, they will have less calls of stolen accounts to deal with. money money money

@Bozanimal: They did say that they were still looking into it to make sure other things weren't accessed, but I doubt they were. However, it's unlikely that the store was also hacked.

@Bozanimal:

You need to read the message CAREFULLY.

He says, "If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well."

See below for the full announcement.

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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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I appreciate the feedback! Still, I think my original comment still seems accurate. To their knowledge no other Steam services were compromised. If you use multiple Steam services that use the same password, or the same password on other sites (as Blizzard mentions in its announcement), you need to change them. That said, you should never use the same password for multiple sites, anyway. ;)

If you do use the same password for multiple sites, consider instead using an encrypted password manager like Password SAFE. It allows you to generate random passwords and manage those passwords across multiple sites. Once it's set up it is extremely convenient, and makes web browsing and e-commerce significantly safer.

Happy - and safe! - gaming.

@Bozanimal: The notification i just recived says that all sections of steam got intruded and even the encrypted credit card data was placed at risk. There is no save zone right now, and all i can say is that 15 month for x-box live and the security that it offers is very nice compared to having your credit cards taken from you 2 times in one year.

@Auston:

This is somewhat false because if you use the same password and email for the other accounts, then you are screwed. The operative sense here is if you are LAZY, INCOMPETANT and just too STUPID then you're gonna be screwed in all of your accounts. This is the reason Blizzard posted this warning here. Some of you only have one email for everything and are likely to be affected by this. Also note that he also said:

"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 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.

@Auston: Actually on the 10th they said that all databases were violated. Not just forums. So even the encrypted and identifying information was placed at risk.

@Koonannirc: I have slow internet......*sadface*

@Badjudgement: i understand that most dont go out where that person lives......i have had that till i moved in to the city

@Kittencute:

This is kind of naive of you. You do realize that your credit card information will likely trickle to black markets and then they'll assume your indenity and sign up for all sorts of crap you didn't even know existed and without you knowing until your credit score is examined years down the road.

@Potluck: That is why i dont use credit cards. However! Every purchase i do online is from paypal, so even if they got access to my payment method there is no card bound to the paypal i used so minimal risk there.

@Maxwelljd: but some poeple dont think or dont have the ablilty for them