Hackers Hit Steam Forums

[Dooly95]

Hmm, who is steam evil rival that would benefit from this?
Hint starts with o ends with rigin

I'm not accusing anybody, just saying

Occasional online sellers of games... rigin?

Just so you know, Gamespot had one too. Just because Origin came along with their EA exclusives doesn't mean that they're the only chump... er, 'rivals' in the park.

 

[Sofus]

This may not be as much of a problem as it could be, but it is still rather annoying. I really hope that the ones responsible can be found.

 

[kingofboars]

Hackers being annoying pricks.

 

[brainslurper]

"Arrgh gabe stop I'm not food oh god please okay I'll stop where oh gdasfsdfagad"

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Oh no they're going to steal my account to ask for support and talk about games.

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.

This just in, Hackers have stolen all information relating to PayPal accounts.

Scared now?

 

[LobsterFeng]

I cant currently change my steam password. anyone else experiencing this?

I was getting that for a sec but then I saw it needed to be updated so once I did that it worked.

 

[Zanaxal]

Somebody wanted that website to get legal action and steams attention to get shut down ha.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Wow. What an idiot.

What's the point to taking down those forms? It didn't remove Valve anti cheat, and nothing they do ever will.

Now let's unleash an army of gabens to his house.

Seriously, it's like flicking one soldier in a massive army.

 

[Metalrocks]

good thing i dont care for the forum. unless its about a old game and want to find out if it works on newer systems. but i did use the troubleshooter few times and i got help from valve. so this at least works.

damn the hackers. makes you want to stay away from PC at all.

 

[Stormz]

Another reason not to like Steam. Having all your games linked to an account means hackers can easily screw you out of 100s of dollars. Good thing it was only the forum, just wait until this happens to the main accounts.

 

[PinkiePyro]

Steam has a forum?

my thoughts exactly I am just glad it wasnt somthing actually important like steam itself

 

[Skeleon]

Now, could they crash Steam itself if they wanted to?
This is one of the many reasons I don't like the idea of linking up online to play games locally.

 

[targren]

A vBulletin board was pwned? Shocker!

In other news, Water is Wet. Sun expected to rise in East. Haters gonna hate.

Seriously. VB boards are easier to compromise than a politician with a taste for acting in underage midget porn films.

 

[samsonguy920]

Now, could they crash Steam itself if they wanted to?
This is one of the many reasons I don't like the idea of linking up online to play games locally.

Separate entity, which I would imagine is managed a lot differently seeing what it holds.
This was just a forum being hacked. Apparently this happens quite often according to some people. Unless you use the same handle and password for your main Steam account(if you do, slap yourself upside the head and get it changed), you have nothing to worry about.
Besides, by all appearances they only went in to post some inflammatory bs. I doubt they had the interest or the time to get to accounts before Valve shut the forums down.

If you do have a forum account, I would give Valve time to get it straightened out and back online, and then wait a bit longer as it is going to be lagged beyond belief of everyone going on to post their reaction on the forum of the forum being hacked. After that, change your password.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Anonymous hackers fucked up the STEAM forums?

What asshats. Never heard of Fkn0wned before. They are getting some free adverts out this tho.

I don't know why you're angry, it's not like anyone uses that place except for searching for fixes and save locations.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Anonymous hackers fucked up the STEAM forums?

What asshats. Never heard of Fkn0wned before. They are getting some free adverts out this tho.

I don't know why you're angry, it's not like anyone uses that place except for searching for fixes and save locations.

It's not like I cursed out their family and wished cancer on them...

It's a shit head move to shut down forums people use for constructive purposes. Some people that download games from STEAM require the tech assistance from those forums on installing and running games properly. What's the point in bringing that down??

But they didn't. They added a message up the top. Valve took the site down. If support was taken down as well, sure that's a dick move. But just the forums? Not too big a deal.

 

[Vzzdak]

Anywho, I don't get why hackers hack stuff like this. I mean honestly, what would you gain from hacking steam's forums? I guess some people have a just lil' to much spare time on their hands

Maybe the hack is a means of drawing attention to a security issue that encourages the owner to fix in a timely order? There's precedent for some companies to attempt suing/investigating anyone that reports security concerns, instead of actually fixing the code.

 

[Vzzdak]

They've probably got your e-mail address, though.

Hm. I'm trying to log into steam to change my password just in case (I don't even know if I used the forums, and the steam service has my old card info anyway), but it says it's having trouble connecting. Anyone else?

Probably a greater concern to check that your e-mail account password is up to scratch.

 

[McMullen]

They've probably got your e-mail address, though.

Hm. I'm trying to log into steam to change my password just in case (I don't even know if I used the forums, and the steam service has my old card info anyway), but it says it's having trouble connecting. Anyone else?

Probably a greater concern to check that your e-mail account password is up to scratch.

I use different passwords for email.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

What was the accomplishment except pissing off Valve employees and users? It's pathetic, absolutely childish and pathetic.

And delayed me selling my Unusual hat in TF2 for monehz.