Steam Forums Hacked, User Information Compromised

From DailyTech: This year already has quite a few hacking-related blemishes on record that compromised both government and corporate systems. Now, another can be added to the long list of those who have been targeted in 2011: Steam.

Steam is a digital distribution, multiplayer and communications platform created by American video game developer Valve Corporation. It offers catalogues by several major game publishers such as EA, Rockstar Games, Bethesda Softworks, Activision and Square Enix. As of October 2011, there were 35 million active user accounts and 1,400 games available on Steam.

Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of Valve, announced that the Steam forums suffered a security breach Sunday that compromised Steam users' personal details.

While no evidence of credit card fraud has yet been evident, all Steam users will be required to change their passwords for the Steam forums. It will not be required that they change their passwords for their actual Steam accounts, but doing so wouldn't hurt.

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