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Steam Breach - Lots of Personal Data, little worry of password compromiseDate: 2011-11-11 00:12:51 Steampowered.com, the website of over 1100 games has reported a breach:
The following announcement was sent to users 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. Sophos' recommendation to users is perfect, we're going to Copy and Paste it: ( Credit: Sophos report on Steam breach
If Steam truly did salt passwords, passwords changes may not be necessary. It's better to be safe than sorry. Category: Breach Subcategory: Passwords |
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