Poll: Are You Cancelling Your Credit Card over the Steam Hack?
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free copies of portal 2!?!?!Matthew94 said:1. They don't know it has been takenTigger1992 said:
2. It's encrypted in AES256, they won't be getting into those files.
holy shit.
i am paying attention to steam every day if that is true.
OT: no...
this isn't how credit cards work.
they didn't get past the encrypted information for one thing, and two if they were somehow able to hack your steam account they'd also have to be able to hack your e-mail on top of that to authorize the use of it on their own computer.
so no, not really worried at the moment, plus i don't use the forums nor do i care if someone hacked the forum part of it.
No. Since Steam could only store my credit card number but not the correspondent PIN (which you do not use to put in an order via Steam or any normal internet shop for that matter), all I have to do is check my card activity and in any case of misuse to report it to my bank. However, I did change my account password.
The credit card that bought the one game I bought through Steam had been swapped out already, because there was a similar issue with Steam last July.
Gabe Newell is essentially correct. Encryptions are made specifically to be virtually impossible to break. If they manage, I will be sincerely surprised. While I changed my email and contact information, I am not changing any credit card information.
Protip: try actually reading the notices before you panic.Tigger1992 said:
There is no evidence that they got the card numbers or personally identifying information and no one has reported any fraudulent charges yet.
It's a good idea to change your password, but not much else. Also, most banks are very good about fraudulent charges, so even if a charge did show up, it's usually pretty easy to undo. Unless you're totally oblivious about your bank accounts, which would be silly given how easy it is to check them online nowadays.
See above. They just got the salted and hashed data. The probability of them actually obtaining numbers is unbelievably slim.martintox said:
I sympathize with you about the money though.
I deleted my debit card info. Not that it matters for two reasons. First, the AES256 thing. Secondly, my account has a little over $2 on it right now. Have fun with that shopping spree.
Going by your comment (and similar ones I've seen, including Gabe's statement), AES256 seems pretty damn safe. I am, however, utterly clueless about encryption. Just how safe is AES256 and why? In layman's terms, please.Matthew94 said:1. They don't know it has been taken
2. It's encrypted in AES256, they won't be getting into those files.
(This was not meant to question you or anything, I'm just curious about it.)
AES256 protects the nuclear launch codes. Simple enough?Sunrider84 said:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/documents/aes/CNSS15FS.pdf
