Par laimi, sensitīvākie dati – kredītkaršu informācija – ir glabāta šifrētā veidā, un šobrīd vēl nav novēroti apliecinājumi tam, ka hakeriem ir izdevies to atšifrēt. Jebkurā gadījumā visi, kas izmanto Steam, ir aicināti ar pastiprinātu uzmanību sekot līdzi attiecīgā bankas konta darījumiem.
Tāpat atgādinām, ka nereti pēc šādiem gadījumiem aktivizējas ar konkrēto uzlaušanas gadījumu nesaistīti kiberļaundari, kuri ar it kā no Steam/Valve sūtītu e-pastu palīdzību var censties izkrāpt no lietotājiem informāciju par viņu parolēm un interneta resursam piesaistītajiem maksājumu līdzekļiem.
Lūk, Valve līdzdibinātāja Geiba Ņūvela vēstule lietotājiem:
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 andencryptedcredit card information. We do not have evidence that encryptedcreditcardnumbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection oncreditcard 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 Steamaccountpasswords(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.