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General discussionPotentially serious Steam account issues... (179 posts)(179 posts)
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Posted December 25, 2015
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PookaMustard: Caught a part of it on tape!

Should be a lesson on why you should NOT use Steam.
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zeogold: Anybody can be hacked, amigo. Steam is supposedly one of the top gaming sites as far as security, so theoretically it would be even easier for the same to happen with GOG.
Would be a disaster if every uses library is empty.

Time for backup I guess.
Posted December 25, 2015
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PookaMustard: Caught a part of it on tape!

Should be a lesson on why you should NOT use Steam.
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zeogold: Anybody can be hacked, amigo. Steam is supposedly one of the top gaming sites as far as security, so theoretically it would be even easier for the same to happen with GOG.
GOG doesn't STORE credit card information, amigo.
Posted December 25, 2015
Someone royally fucked up routine maintenance or something here. It's not a hack, so no information is being stolen.

You can't use the store to purchase and there's no way to get credit card information off this issue. It might have been possible at the start for people to use others Steam wallet funds but there's no confirmation that actually happened.

BUT you can access the personal information of someone else if you get sent to their account through steam. I checked it and wound up on someone's account where I could see where they lived, their name, phone number. Everything but CC information.
Posted December 25, 2015
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PookaMustard: Caught a part of it on tape!

Should be a lesson on why you should NOT use Steam.
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zeogold: Anybody can be hacked, amigo. Steam is supposedly one of the top gaming sites as far as security, so theoretically it would be even easier for the same to happen with GOG.
It's not working like that with IT security.
popular_website =! secure_servers
Posted December 25, 2015
If any gog account users see ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS on their gog account or with the site, MAKE A POST IMMEDIATELY. Don't mean to be alarmist, but I think we should be on guard in case this shit come our way.
Posted December 25, 2015
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haydenaurion: If any gog account users see ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS on their gog account or with the site, MAKE A POST IMMEDIATELY. Don't mean to be alarmist, but I think we should be on guard in case this shit come our way.
Didn't it already months ago?
There are a bloody lot of threads about hacked accounts on GoG and insufficient security methods.
It all seemed to start with the release of Witcher 3.
Post edited December 25, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted December 25, 2015
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haydenaurion: If any gog account users see ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS on their gog account or with the site, MAKE A POST IMMEDIATELY. Don't mean to be alarmist, but I think we should be on guard in case this shit come our way.
I see tinyE on here all the time. He counts as suspicious, right?
Posted December 25, 2015
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Hawk52: Someone royally fucked up routine maintenance or something here. It's not a hack, so no information is being stolen.

You can't use the store to purchase and there's no way to get credit card information off this issue. It might have been possible at the start for people to use others Steam wallet funds but there's no confirmation that actually happened.

BUT you can access the personal information of someone else if you get sent to their account through steam. I checked it and wound up on someone's account where I could see where they lived, their name, phone number. Everything but CC information.
You could actually see their phone numbers, because from what I saw you could only see their last 4 digits (like CC info)? I saw the profiles of a few people in the past hour.
Posted December 25, 2015
All hail Gaben, everyone can see my E-mail and fake name now. :/
Good thing I dont have any cash in my Steam wallet. Except for those 65 cents. :`(
Posted December 25, 2015
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Hawk52: Someone royally fucked up routine maintenance or something here. It's not a hack, so no information is being stolen.

You can't use the store to purchase and there's no way to get credit card information off this issue. It might have been possible at the start for people to use others Steam wallet funds but there's no confirmation that actually happened.

BUT you can access the personal information of someone else if you get sent to their account through steam. I checked it and wound up on someone's account where I could see where they lived, their name, phone number. Everything but CC information.
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OlivawR: You could actually see their phone numbers, because from what I saw you could only see their last 4 digits (like CC info)? I saw the profiles of a few people in the past hour.
Idea: Call them and wish them a Merry Christmas, tell them you're their secret Santa and send them a goofy sweater in the mail.
Posted December 25, 2015
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Ah, the old Steam-has-an-issue-commence-circle-jerk thread.
Posted December 25, 2015
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haydenaurion: If any gog account users see ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS on their gog account or with the site, MAKE A POST IMMEDIATELY. Don't mean to be alarmist, but I think we should be on guard in case this shit come our way.
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Klumpen0815: Didn't it already months ago?
There are a bloody lot of threads about hacked accounts on GoG and insufficient security methods.
It all seemed to start with the release of Witcher 3.
I'm talking something more like what's happening on Steam now, but yeah, gog needs two-step or something, but our concerns will probably fall on deaf ears again. :/
Posted December 25, 2015
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Hawk52: Someone royally fucked up routine maintenance or something here. It's not a hack, so no information is being stolen.

You can't use the store to purchase and there's no way to get credit card information off this issue. It might have been possible at the start for people to use others Steam wallet funds but there's no confirmation that actually happened.

BUT you can access the personal information of someone else if you get sent to their account through steam. I checked it and wound up on someone's account where I could see where they lived, their name, phone number. Everything but CC information.
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OlivawR: You could actually see their phone numbers, because from what I saw you could only see their last 4 digits (like CC info)? I saw the profiles of a few people in the past hour.
Yeah, I could see the whole thing. Where they lived, names, phone number, personal details that I doubt they'd want revealed.

Right now there's no danger of people using your information to buy anything...but there's definitely the danger that bad people could find your personal information and find someway to use that against you. Not sure what all you could do without identification or CC number but I'm sure there's people out there that can find ways.

The simple solution to all of this is no matter the site or program or platform, if possible never save your personal information and payment details. I'm fairly certain I have nothing saved in payment details so even if someone did access my account there's nothing they can really take from it.
Posted December 25, 2015
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mikopotato: Wow. This is bad. Thanks for the heads up!

Crap I cant see my account.
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bela555: "Avoid logging into Steam now, this way your account wont be cached and the odds of it being displayed to others will be minor."
Good that I haven't logged into steam for a year or so...
Posted December 26, 2015
Been playing Kotor for the past five hours, hope whoever gets my debit card details, pays off my overdraft..
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