Hackers Hit Steam Forums

[Andy Chalk]

Hackers Hit Steam Forums

The Steam user forums were hacked last night.

Wondering what happened to the Steam user forums? They were reportedly hacked last night by someone claiming to be from cheating/hacking site Fkn0wned.com. Text was inserted into the Steam forum header and other places advising users to check out the site for undetectable cheats, as well as hacking tutorials and tools, porn and the rest of the usual. Valve reacted quickly to the incident, taking the forums offline completely, where they remain as of this writing.

But in a fun twist, Fkn0wned denied that it had anything to do with the mess and actually ended up taking its own forum down for awhile following the Steam blowup, although they've since been restored. "Fkn0wned Forum is currently unavailable In lights of someone crediting us for the recent breaches of steam forums, the board is offline," a message posted on the site said. "Fkn0wned is not responsible."

Valve hasn't said anything about the matter yet, which optimists might take as a sign that there's nothing to worry about; but Sony took awhile to speak up about the PlayStation Network breach too and we all know how that worked out. I'm not suggesting that this is anywhere near the scope of that, but a change of password might be in order anyway.

Source: The_root_of_all_evil [http://kotaku.com/5856975/steam-forums-apparently-hacked] for the tip.


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[Dragoon]

Here we go again, I hate hackers

 

[Yan007]

Hackers gonna hack!

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Steam has a forum?

 

[Sandytimeman]

well luckily the steam forum accounts are different from the steam accounts. So hopefully we should be safe.

 

[ViciousTide]

Hackers should be targeting other countries, unless there is something wrong with America, Oh wait there is! Attack the 1%

Or continue with naive unbias journalism to entertain the unaware ants.

 

[Hungry Donner]

In honor of SPUF.

Steam forums down? Soldier update confirmed!

 

[Discord]

Here we go again, I hate hackers

Indeed, but remember not all "Hackers" are these people hell bent on causeing problems online. Some actually do some awesome things with technology.

I know it's wrong what they did but it could of been worse.

 

[Giest4life]

Steam has a forum?

Ha, Ha! Exactly this. I never go on Steam forums, not even for troubleshooting and support. Their choice of blackish gray background annoys the hell out of my eyes. Good thing I didn't give Steam my credit card info since I purchase via PayPal.

 

[Argtee]

EDIT:
Hmm, I guess the steam forum accounts and the Steam accounts are different.
At least I think it is...
If so, I have nothing to worry about!

Still, that sucks. Hope no information was stolen or anything like that.

 

[Frostbite3789]

I can't imagine this doesn't lead to more. One hacker exploits a ***** in the armor and more will come to pick at it.

 

[JoJo]

But in a fun twist, Fkn0wned denied that it had anything to do with the mess and actually ended up taking its own forum down for awhile following the Steam blowup, although they've since been restored. "Fkn0wned Forum is currently unavailable In lights of someone crediting us for the recent breaches of steam forums, the board is offline," a message posted on the site said. "Fkn0wned is not responsible."

You know what they say, any publicity is good publicity, whoever did this thrust the forum (which I've never heard of before) into the limelight, I wouldn't be surprised if the benefits of that attention out-weight any departures from outraged Steam fans.

 

[Dragoon]

Here we go again, I hate hackers

Indeed, but remember not all "Hackers" are these people hell bent on causeing problems online. Some actually do some awesome things with technology.

I know it's wrong what they did but it could of been worse.

Yeah I know I should say I hate hackers who use their skills for malicious purposes.

 

[Blunderboy]

I've never ventured onto the Steam forums so my reaction is 'meh'.

 

[imnot]

Eh I posted on that maybe once over a year ago, and my credit crad on my account is no longer valid, Yay for not buying anything off stea m in a year!

 

[thespyisdead]

does that make this the fourth (officially 3rd) hack this year of gaming companies (twice for PSN and unofficially XBL)?

 

[teh_gunslinger]

It should be noted that unless you're a complete dolt, your Steam account and your Steam forum account is not the same thing.

 

[GeorgW]

My only question is if the Steam account is automatically tied to the Steam forums? *Answered

As for the rest it's probably better to wait for more information before jumping to conclusions.

 

[Vrach]

Not really worried, forums getting hacked is one thing, accounts getting hacked completely another.

 

[Beryl77]

Steam has a forum?

Ha, Ha! Exactly this. I never go on Steam forums, not even for troubleshooting and support. Their choice of blackish gray background annoys the hell out of my eyes. Good thing I didn't give Steam my credit card info since I purchase via PayPal.

The the accounts on the Steam forums and the digital distribution platform Steam aren't the same, it doesn't matter for Steam whether the hackers got the passwords on the forums or not.

OT: I was already wondering why I couldn't access the forums today. Maybe it's time to change from vBulletin.

Edit:

My only question is if the Steam account is automatically tied to the Steam forums?
As for the rest it's probably better to wait for more information before jumping to conclusions.

No, they're two separate accounts.