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Old 11-10-2011   #1
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"Steam Goes Public on Data Breach"

Front page worthy maybe not? I was going to put it in the off-topic section but Skyrim was in the article sooo

Well as it so goes, over the last weekend the giant video game delivery giant STEAM suffered a data intrusion of there own.

"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."

But wait, there's more...

The story goes on to say how the hackers also gained information to encrypted credit card information, user transactions such as game purchases, and more.

People also speculate that this could delay the release of Skyrim today.

You can check out the whole story at (my) the source from Sophos below.

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also it would not delay any game, people are playing skyrim right now on steam

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.

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Which is why I wrote "speculated" instead of straight up "people said it would be delayed". Just going from what was on the page
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