Steam Forums Apparently Hacked: Update 11/10/2011

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."
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.
Some users reported getting email spam apparently from Fkn0wned.com after the hack, and the forums are, at



http://kotaku.com/5856975/steam-forums-apparently-hacked

Hopefully this guy doesn't find out about it:

hmm princess leigh in her slave outfit...sexy..

Scootter82 wrote:

Hopefully this guy doesn't find out about it:

Every parents --

WORSE NIGHTMARE.....


(well at least now, i know what SIN looks like.. and to avoid him at all cost)

What an assclown in that video ! :albino:

UPDATE-

if you didnt already know:

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.

Gabe.

I changed my password as soon as you made your first post gladI did I use the same password for forums and my account