Hmm, who is steam evil rival that would benefit from this?
Hint starts with o ends with rigin

I'm not accusing anybody, just saying

Blunderboy:
I've never ventured onto the Steam forums so my reaction is 'meh'.

If you ever want to see true Steam hate, there's the place.

Occasionally useful, but always full of bile.

Stall:
Why do people give a shit about this? It's a god damn vbulletin board. They get hacked all the time. It is totally separate from your Steam account.

Is it a fucking slow news day or something? Is everyone just too uncreative to find a decent story at this hour? I just don't get it. Why report on a vbulletin getting hacked? It's fucking pointless.

The same thing happened to the Bethesda forums a while back, and everyone already doesn't give a shit about that.

Somebody is a Mr Grump today.

It's certainly news worthy, but anybody with a brain wont be freaking out about it.

gunner1905:
Hmm, who is steam evil rival that would benefit from this?
Hint starts with o ends with rigin

I'm not accusing anybody, just saying

I love how if something happens to one company the immediate assumption is that their immediate rival company had something to do with it. I would put money down that EA had absolutely nothing to do with this in any way, shape, form, or anything else you can come up with.

Not only are Steam Forum Accounts separate from Steam Accounts, most people are using Steam Guard, so they would have to get your email account too. Unless you have the same Username/Password for all three, in which case you probably deserve to lose what you lose.

silverbullet1989:
spy sapping my forums!

yes this whole hacking business isnt funny anymore -_-

It was funny before?

Fox KITSUNE:

DustlessDragoon:
Here we go again, I hate hackers :(

Indeed, but remember not all "Hackers" are these people hell bent on causeing problems online. Some actually do some awesome things with technology.

I know it's wrong what they did but it could of been worse.

True, but look at all the hate GeoHot got for the horrible "crime" of jailbreaking the PS3. The man should be hailed as a hero by anyone who likes having full access to the hardware they paid for, but instead, even the people he directly benefited hate him.

OT: I did some research on this earlier. The hackers probably didn't do much more than screw up the front page, and if they did get any information, your passwords should be safe, since Vbulletin (which is what the Steam Forums are based on) does a good job of encrypting the passwords. They've probably got your e-mail address, though.

The_root_of_all_evil:

Blunderboy:
I've never ventured onto the Steam forums so my reaction is 'meh'.

If you ever want to see true Steam hate, there's the place.

Occasionally useful, but always full of bile.

Yeah, I think ive only posted once or twice since I created a forums account for steam. Barely used it. I still changed my password just to be on the safe side though.

Redlin5:
I didn't join the forums so it seems I would be safe... right?

Yes, actually. The forum account is completely separate from the main Steam account. I learned this the hard way when I had a tech support question to ask, and I had to make an account and then wait for them to approve it because my e-mail address was from Yahoo.

you know, one day hackers are going to piss some corporation off so bad that they will back track them and send hit men after them to teach them not to fuck around with peoples personal property.

fucking hackers and DDOSers are the reason people want the internet under government control.

Irridium:

GeorgW:

I dunno, that seems like a pretty obvious lack of security, I'd hope more than 99% aren't that naive.

Damn-near everyone uses one password for everything. Plus, is it really much of a stretch for people to use their Steam name/password for the Steam forums?

Maybe instead of one password for everything they should use 1Password. Or KeePass if they're like me and don't need everything synced with their phone but do need it to be free/non-expensive. Doesn't really matter to me if they get the password to my Steam forum account, because not only is it different from all the passwords I use for everything else, it's a random string of letters and numbers that not even I know. It gets them access to nothing, and having to change it is no big deal to me. Heh.

It's things like this that make me glad for things like Steam Guard that would require a hacker to obtain my email credentials as well to mess with anything; I had my forum password being the same as my Steam password (though I don't now), which may have been a problem otherwise.

Andy Chalk:
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You know, at no point during any of that did you note that the forum uses a different account than the Steam service. That's a big piece of information to omit. If the commenters, rather than you, are providing one of the most important bits of information concerning a news story, I think that means you're doing it wrong.

OT: Hm. I'm trying to log into steam to change my password just in case (I don't even know if I used the forums, and the steam service has my old card info anyway), but it says it's having trouble connecting. Anyone else?

I wonder if it wasnt a gamer who was pi...eerr annoyed due to hackers in thier game and wanted to make Valve notice the world of hacking a bit more.
Seems a rather tame piece of hacking but does show Valve is not immune to attacks ( ironically Valve should be more aware than most, recall the source of Source getting to the wild ? ), plus if things work out Valve would be rather irritated with a certain site that provides the pathetic and lame means to pretend for a few seconds they are good at something.

Hope Valve takes a more aggressive stance towards the products those sites purvey.

a brilliant hack. I have feeling that Fkn0wned didn't actually hack them.

Think about it, if you're a hacker, and you were pissed off by hackers screwing up the game, who better to pin a hacking of the steam network on than a distributor of hacks?

Maybe I'm just looking to far into this.

lol.

Vrach:
Not really worried, forums getting hacked is one thing, accounts getting hacked completely another.

I found this pretty funny. Thanks for the comic.

Don't care, Steam is bad for gaming anyway.

We should be safe since potential hackers still need to access our email accounts before logging in. Still, it's never a bad idea to change passwords

(My response to the whole incident)

And thus a tear will be shed on the Steam forums...for NIGH! HAS THERE BEEN A DAY OF GREATER MOURNING...brothers...we shall find the light in this darkness...the path in this dense forest...THE ROAD TO SAL...Oh...my game is finished updating, Cya later...

Well, to fix everyone's perception of this. It wasn't the SPUF itself that was hacked, it was the vBulletin system, which is completely separate from the Steam system. It's a basic system that is really open to attacks rather easily.

On a side not, I had just posted on SPUF about how the strange ad on the top of the page was for a game hacking system, just before they took it down. It was pretty ridiculous.

The_root_of_all_evil:

Blunderboy:
I've never ventured onto the Steam forums so my reaction is 'meh'.

If you ever want to see true Steam hate, there's the place.

Occasionally useful, but always full of bile.

So it's the Gallbladder of the internet?

Never used it, so I don't fear for the safety of my account.

DVS BSTrD:
Why wouldn't they take credit for this?
*notices the angry mob of pitchfork welding Steam users*
Oh, right.

Holy shit, a welder and a pitchfork? Give me something to sign, I want one!

Even if I use same pw for my steam forum id as for my steam I'm not going to change, I have enough faith in steam guard to stop scriptie kids from entering it.

Hmm...

I feel like any moment now VALVe is going to figure who it really was and unleash some sort of terrible monster hidden in the company basement that they feed problem gamers to..

Hacking for the sake of advertising is one of those things I hate the most probably. Oh sure, fkn0wned didn't do it. And spam email trying to sell you viagra is just guys trying to help you, not in any way affiliated with the companies...
Those idiots are probably laughing their asses off for how much publicity they get for this now.

teh_gunslinger:
It should be noted that unless you're a complete dolt, your Steam account and your Steam forum account is not the same thing.

I think you're not even allowed to use your steam account name as a forum account name...

Either way, Steam is still safe as ever. /shrug

Owyn_Merrilin:

Redlin5:
I didn't join the forums so it seems I would be safe... right?

Yes, actually. The forum account is completely separate from the main Steam account. I learned this the hard way when I had a tech support question to ask, and I had to make an account and then wait for them to approve it because my e-mail address was from Yahoo.

And actually, support is yet a third account. Your Steam account is separate from you forum account is separate from your support account.

I cant currently change my steam password. anyone else experiencing this?

teh_gunslinger:

Owyn_Merrilin:

Redlin5:
I didn't join the forums so it seems I would be safe... right?

Yes, actually. The forum account is completely separate from the main Steam account. I learned this the hard way when I had a tech support question to ask, and I had to make an account and then wait for them to approve it because my e-mail address was from Yahoo.

And actually, support is yet a third account. Your Steam account is separate from you forum account is separate from your support account.

Huh, didn't know that. Unfortunately, the account I made really is a forum account; the problem kind of resolved itself before I got a chance to ask anyway, so there was no need to go through with a support ticket, and I guess I wouldn't have been able to without making another account.

gunner1905:
Hmm, who is steam evil rival that would benefit from this?
Hint starts with o ends with rigin

I'm not accusing anybody, just saying

Occasional online sellers of games... rigin?

Just so you know, Gamespot had one too. Just because Origin came along with their EA exclusives doesn't mean that they're the only chump... er, 'rivals' in the park.

This may not be as much of a problem as it could be, but it is still rather annoying. I really hope that the ones responsible can be found.