Steam Forums Apparently Hacked

Jstn7477 · Nov 7, 2011, 03:02 PM

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Last night, the forums for Valve's Steam service were apparently hacked. Redirects for a hacking website, Fkn0wned.com, appeared on the Steam Users' Forums, offering "hacking tutorials and tools, porn, free giveaways and much more."

It's not clear who hacked the forums, but Fkn0wned.com is denying responsibility, writing this on its own site: "Fkn0wned Forum is currently unavailable In lights of someone crediting us for the recent breaches of steam forums, the board is offline. Fkn0wned is not responsible."

Some users reported getting email spam apparently from Fkn0wned.com after the hack, and the forums are, at the time of posting, offline.

The Steam User's Forums and the Steam service account passwords are separate, but some users might use the same handles and passwords across both. If that pertains to you, it might be a good idea to change your Steam account password. And pronto.

Kotaku is following up with Valve and will update this post should the company comment.

Source: Kotaku

Now's a good time to check your Steam account's security and make sure you are using good security measures to protect yourself. My friend two weeks ago had her Steam account hacked, bank account drained via Steam purchases, and the account administratively disabled in the end. Trust me, you don't want to go through that.

theJesus · Nov 7, 2011, 03:06 PM

This should be front-page news imo. Good thing I don't have an account on the Steam forums.

Delta6326 · Nov 7, 2011, 03:07 PM

hm, I better go check mine

Edit: all good here.

1Kurgan1 · Nov 7, 2011, 06:22 PM

Simple solution run the Steam thing that requires you to enter a code that gets sent to your email each time you try to access your Steam account from a new computer. But sadly I have heard of a few people having issues with it, but it works great for me.

theoneandonlymrk · Nov 7, 2011, 07:15 PM

+1 and ill up you a password change, im paranoid.

hope i rem that pword it was a soddin paragraph

theJesus · Nov 7, 2011, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by 1Kurgan1

Simple solution run the Steam thing that requires you to enter a code that gets sent to your email each time you try to access your Steam account from a new computer. But sadly I have heard of a few people having issues with it, but it works great for me.

Yeah, I do something similar with my online bank account too. Except for that, it goes to my phone, y'know in case my e-mail gets hacked too.

1Kurgan1 · Nov 7, 2011, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by theJesus

Yeah, I do something similar with my online bank account too. Except for that, it goes to my phone, y'know in case my e-mail gets hacked too.

Yeah, got to be careful with the emails, I always set a different password on mine than other things. Then I have a recovery email for my main one with a different password. My email has been jacked once, but they didn't get the backup email so I just recovered it and giggled.

KieranD · Nov 7, 2011, 07:39 PM

I use the steam secure thing that if your on a new computer ect, you need to verify it via email. Other than that make sure your email is a different password to steam so they dont just log into your email.

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