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Hackers access Steam subscriber database - Newell addresses the Steam community
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Caoilin
Title: Instigator
Posts: 2,278
Registered: 2001-11-20 00:03:45
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Date Posted:
11/10/11 5:30pm
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Hackers access Steam subscriber database - Newell addresses the Steam community
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it makes them taste better.
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Dresler
Posts: 31
Registered: 2003-10-22 08:44:19
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Date Posted:
11/10/11 5:30pm
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Hackers access Steam subscriber database - Newell addresses the Steam community
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Marzuk posted:
It took Sony weeks to own up to it, and on top of it all their statement iirc was quite vague. On the other hand, there was a problem noted with Steam Forums, they are taken offline pretty quickly, and a couple days later we get a notice of what they had access to and what we should look out for.
Not only that, an open statement that passwords and credit card data were hashed and salted is a good thing as well. Contrast this to Sony not stating this immediately and upfront, (even Googling it now yields rampant accusations of plain-text, which they later denied) and its just not even in the same ballpark.
I'm not saying Steam is completely blameless, but its far better than how Sony handled things. Lets also not forget that Sony was compromised multiple times, and that PSN was down for quite some time.
I think its not so much any one thing on Sonys end, but a combination of things.
And then for the next X months Sony kept finding out other databases of theirs had just been hacked......
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JRave2002
Title: The Darksteel
Posts: 24
Registered: 2002-9-26 19:39:13
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Date Posted:
11/10/11 5:30pm
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Hackers access Steam subscriber database - Newell addresses the Steam community
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Funny enough I just recently got hit with a couple password reset requests for some other games.
Only odd part is, at least 2 of them had the same password as my steam forums account. The usernames were the same as well. Makes me think they have the emails but not the passwords so far.
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Lithium_Power
Title: I want my icon back....
Posts: 256
Registered: 2001-12-6 18:29:44
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Date Posted:
11/10/11 5:30pm
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Hackers access Steam subscriber database - Newell addresses the Steam community
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I think everyone is safe until they crack the encryption on that database.
Then the sh*t will hit the fan.
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Lithium_Power
Title: I want my icon back....
Posts: 256
Registered: 2001-12-6 18:29:44
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Date Posted:
11/10/11 5:30pm
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Hackers access Steam subscriber database - Newell addresses the Steam community
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Perhaps their affiliation with Sony had something to do with it?
Perhaps the hackers got ahold of information that Valve shared with Sony (database wise) and exploited it?
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