Poll: Are You Cancelling Your Credit Card over the Steam Hack?

[Tigger1992]

Will you be cancelling your credit card knowing that the encrypted card data on Steam has been accessed?

 

[Itsthefuzz]

Nope. I, instead, bought skyrim... on steam.

 

[Terminate421]

I changed my password and have steam guard.

THe last thing I purchased was months ago and even then, I didn't have my credit card saved. I also didn't use the forums.

I don't think I'll cancel it.

 

[Fooz]

na, i changed my password though.

 

[Tigger1992]

The thing that bugs me is that we can change our passwords all we want, but the hackers may have all of our credit card numbers and can buy whatever they want with them. If the credit cards are compromised then steam guard and password changing will not be able to help.

 

[GigaHz]

Considering I use a different password for everything (mwahahah) I'm not too worried.

I have been checking my credit card history, just to be on the safe side.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Pfft. I'm a PSN user, gimme a break.

 

[lacktheknack]

No. Encryption isn't easy to break, you know.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Will you be cancelling your credit card knowing that the encrypted card data on Steam has been accessed?

Would you cancel your card knowing that every shopkeeper who takes your payment by Chip/Pin can watch your wrist muscles move, and easily know your PIN code?

Because I can tell you a lot of people's PINs.

Hashed/Salted codes are far harder to suss out than simply going through the banks wastebins.

 

[lacktheknack]

The thing that bugs me is that we can change our passwords all we want, but the hackers may have all of our credit card numbers and can buy whatever they want with them. If the credit cards are compromised then steam guard and password changing will not be able to help.

AES256 encryption. As far as I know, it's never been cracked.

 

[StBishop]

Credit card? Really? Get Palpal and worry less. Set up a separate account which has instant transfers from your main account which has a debit card attached. Problem solved.

It'll probably cost less than a credit card too.

 

[ResonanceGames]

For cryptographers, a cryptographic "break" is anything faster than a brute force?performing one trial encryption for each key. Thus, an attack against a 256-bit-key AES requiring 2200 operations (compared to 2256 possible keys) would be considered a break, even though 2200 operations would still take far longer than the age of the universe to complete.

That's a properly cited and correct statement from wikipedia. If you're afraid of hackers cracking that encryption, you're nuts.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Will you be cancelling your credit card knowing that the encrypted card data on Steam has been accessed?

1. They don't know it has been taken

2. It's encrypted in AES256, they won't be getting into those files.

Ayup.
Mathematically, it would take a regular 4ghz processor more time than the sun has existed to brute-force AES256.
Even jacking up the factor of processing, that's STILL a long fucking time to crack one file.

 

[Dudeio]

Credit card? Really? Get Palpal and worry less. Set up a separate account which has instant transfers from your main account which has a debit card attached. Problem solved.

It'll probably cost less than a credit card too.

And when Paypal gets hacked? What then? You're never safe from having your card stolen.

 

[StBishop]

Credit card? Really? Get Palpal and worry less. Set up a separate account which has instant transfers from your main account which has a debit card attached. Problem solved.

It'll probably cost less than a credit card too.

And when Paypal gets hacked? What then? You're never safe from having your card stolen.

I don't think I explained myself correctly.

My paypal currently has ~$3.00 in it.

If I wanted there could be all the money I need there within minutes. However this requires access to both: my banking, and my paypal.

But then, there's always risk in anything. Using all of the systems at your disposal will make it harder for anyone trying to steal from you. Like putting your rolex in a safe which is in your locked house. If they know the combination to the safe but can't get into your house, you keep your watch; if they get in your house, but can't crack the safe, you keep your watch.

I also recommend banking with more than one bank. Don't keep all of your eggs in one basket.

Make more sense?

If someone were able to get access to both of these I'd hope that at least one of the companies involved would help in recovering the stolen funds. If not, there's savings which is handled completely offline.

No, I'm not paranoid. I'm prepared.

 

[Dudeio]

Credit card? Really? Get Palpal and worry less. Set up a separate account which has instant transfers from your main account which has a debit card attached. Problem solved.

It'll probably cost less than a credit card too.

And when Paypal gets hacked? What then? You're never safe from having your card stolen.

I don't think I explained myself correctly.

My paypal currently has ~$3.00 in it.

If I wanted there could be all the money I need there within minutes. However this requires access to both: my banking, and my paypal.

But then, there's always risk in anything. Using all of the systems at your disposal will make it harder for anyone trying to steal from you. Like putting your rolex in a safe which is in your locked house. If they know the combination to the safe but can't get into your house, you keep your watch; if they get in your house, but can't crack the safe, you keep your watch.

I also recommend banking with more than one bank. Don't keep all of your eggs in one basket.

Make more sense?

If someone were able to get access to both of these I'd hope that at least one of the companies involved would help in recovering the stolen funds. If not, there's savings which is handled completely offline.

No, I'm not paranoid. I'm prepared.

If someone steals my paypal account password they can go on ebay and buy all the shit they want with my paypal without me having any money on my account, paypal takes it anyways and I'll end up in negative.

 

[distortedreality]

Haven't even bothered changing my password, got Steam Guard enabled, and with the encryption Valve uses for CC data, i'm not really worried.

Not too fussed if I lose my forum account either, I was one infraction away from a permaban lol