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[Jawmuncher]

To anyone downplaying the breach, I humby recommend publicly posting your physical address, phone number, last digits of cc, and email address.

Even for "only an hour."

See how little that breach feels.

Yep, sums it up.

 

[aibaby]

Okay, well this is funny and all, but IGN's Lets Play producer is on twitter saying he has purchases on his account.

That seems to be as confirmed as we need, right?

https://twitter.com/BenJanca

.

 

[mugurumakensei]

i just looked at someone's account using google's cache..

sigh..

Yep, definitely looks like a caching mess. Oh boy.

 

[Theorry]

Dont see a option on my paypal for any Steam links etc. So i am good i think?

 

[davidwhangchoi]

I just find it annoying people are dismissing everything as shopped WHEN multiple people across different websites are reporting monetary funds being used.

i know which users to ignore now.

 

[Dunkley]

Via Wario64...

It's actually just a Half-Life triple pack.

 

[nded]

What is the most prudent thing to do at this point?

Monitor any accounts linked with Steam and be prepared to deal with unwanted charges if necessary.

 

[Guymelef]

I like people making fun with photoshop of this paypal/cc charges even if we don't know if are true or not.

 

[Hop]

Steam is far far larger than 75 million accounts. It has at least 125 million active accounts alone and only Valve knows how many not active.

My bad. Just did a super-quick google and took the first reasonable number.

 

[cyba89]

What we know so far

[*]No changes can be made to the effected account, no purchases can be made.

Do you have actually any proof for that.

If you don't have proof stop spreading potential misinformation.

 

[dity]

Okay, well this is funny and all, but IGN's Lets Play producer is on twitter saying he has purchases on his account.

That seems to be as confirmed as we need, right?

https://twitter.com/BenJanca

I at least recognise some people are probably effected by the incident, but I wouldn't be surprised about random people on reddit/4chan trying to drum up panic.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

I guess it's down to mines for me.

 

[Delusibeta]

What is the most prudent thing to do at this point?

Go to Paypal.com and revoke the payment agreement with Steampowered. Other than that, don't do anything.

 

[Mr. Enigma]

OH NOOOOO

 

[ViciousDS]

Okay, well this is funny and all, but IGN's Lets Play producer is on twitter saying he has purchases on his account.

That seems to be as confirmed as we need, right?

https://twitter.com/BenJanca

It's ok.....apparently this couldn't happen according to all the defenders in the thread. Have no fear Grief control is here.

 

[Steel]

What is the most prudent thing to do at this point?

If you wanted to be as safe as possible you'd have to do the following:

Get your bank to stop all purchases coming in and out of your credit card.

Get a new email address.

Change your phone number.

All this being said, they really shouldn't be able to use your credit card without your CCV for anything buy social engineering. The other two.... Yeah, potentially breached.

 

[SuperChoco]

I am really glad that I don't have my CC info on my account since there have been about 5 attempts at login on my account, according to Steam Guard emails. Definitely going to be interesting moving forward.

 

[benny_a]

Do you have actually any proof for that.

It's a matter of who do you believe more. The few posters in this thread that have claimed they had unauthorized pruchases or saw address data, and that IGN guy that claims to be affected or Grief.exe

 

[IcyRhythms]

Is Valve responsible for anything that happens to your bank or Paypal?

 

[televator]

I haven't accessed my steam client in a week... Should I... Uh... be doing something about this?

 

[dickroach]

I just heard a fire truck drive by my apartment... is my account safe?

 

[Paches]

Was wondering why I clicked on a game and all the text came up in Japanese, Jesus Christ, must have had some dude's account.

 

[yuraya]

Yeah dismissing the fact that shit has been bought is stupid. However. Is the purchase going to *your* account if someone is buying it through your account?

If so, can't you just refund it easily thanks to Valve's new refund policy? Not defending them, this is a fucking ridiculous thing to happen and people should be pissed.

If that is the worst case scenario Valve will just roll back all purchases. They've done it before. I remember just last year during the sack of gems fuckup they rolled back a lot of stuff for many steam accounts.

 

[Tenebrous]

Why the are people making shitty jokes about this when people have gotten their card info leaked and used?

What are we meant to do - Sit here and fear the worst?

If my info has been leaked, then so be it. Until I know anything for certain, I just wanna guess at the freebies we'll be getting, and have a little chuckle.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Okay, well this is funny and all, but IGN's Lets Play producer is on twitter saying he has purchases on his account.

That seems to be as confirmed as we need, right?

https://twitter.com/BenJanca

Damn.

 

[Rhaknar]

As a reminder, some transactions take a couple days to process. I bought Pac-Man CE DX a few days back and it only appeared on my statement last night. Make sure to cross reference your bank transaction history with the purchase confirmation email from Steam, before jumping to any conclusions.

I have 5€ being processed in my bank which my first reaction was it was about this, then I remembered "oh wait I bought Stasis for 5€ on GMG and it always takes a couple of days"

 

[EricTheCleric]

by clicking edit



Dam stump, why so cheap.


.80? Come on man atleast do a $1

so that means I should cancel my CC?

 

[Haunted]

hey if anyone gets into my account please do not read my chat logs

this is for your sake as much as mine

so that was you you sick fuck

 

[Rebel Leader]

Okay, well this is funny and all, but IGN's Lets Play producer is on twitter saying he has purchases on his account.

That seems to be as confirmed as we need, right?

https://twitter.com/BenJanca

 

[mugurumakensei]

I haven't accessed my steam client in a week... Should I... Uh... be doing something about this?

Don't login whatever you do.

 

[Parallacs]

Grats on finally getting GTA-V with Nurse Shark DLC

 

[Steel]

Is Valve responsible for anything that happens to your bank or Paypal?

If it's a steam purchase, hell yes.

 

[Skytylz]

I'm late to the party

Edit: This is fake by the way. Edited page source, figured the 9001 would be the give away.

 

[Reebot]

I like people making fun with photoshop of this paypal/cc charges even if we don't know if are true or not.

Well between "criticize Valve" and "mock the affected users" we now know which they're willing to do.

 

[justjim89]

Is it ok to play games on Steam? Or should I not even be signed into the client?

 

[KZXcellent]

/v/ isn't doing anything more than collectively shitting themselves and posting lewd anime girls in an attempt to stay calm.

I think that's a fair way to handle this.

 

[Metrotab]

How does something like this even happen?

 

[Grief.exe]

.

 

[davidwhangchoi]

Do you have actually any proof for that.

If you don't have proof stop spreading potential misinformation.

+1

added to ignore list

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

Do you have actually any proof for that.

If you don't stop spreading potential misinformation.

No, actually we have several reports of the contrary, from GAF to IGN staff members.

 

[Smash88]

It isn't that far fetched, but the problem is that when you're posting stuff second hand and you don't offer a source, no one has a chain of trust, and it creates panic. There's no doubt this is serious and if the payment thing is true then it's a big deal, but when you just breathlessly repeat stuff you see online you can contribute to miscommunication about what actually happened. My account is one of the ones that was affected by this, so you can understand that I'm nervous -- but it doesn't help me if I don't know what's going on. It's absolutely Valve's responsibility to communicate this to me, but in the mean time we should be vigilant about whose stories we choose to repost. This is much better because you have a source and you are being clear about it.

I know stump but I saw many posts popping up, I just wanted people to secure everything ASAP, so they would stay safe. I was just trying to look out for people on here and I got mocked.

IGN even confirmed it happening to one of their own.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=190428683&postcount=1806

 

[Crono27]

How does something like this even happen?

Just like everything else in world by accident or intention

 

[Unbound By Death]

If you wanted to be as safe as possible you'd have to do the following:

Get your bank to stop all purchases coming in and out of your credit card.

Get a new email address.

Change your phone number.

All this being said, they really shouldn't be able to use your credit card without your CCV for anything buy social engineering. The other two.... Yeah, potentially breached.

Why would you get a new email address? Im confused.

 

[And_Gignac]

Via Wario64...

grief.exe please update your "totally not damage control" post.

 

[mugurumakensei]

Is it ok to play games on Steam? Or should I not even be signed into the client?

Don't even sign in to the client.

 

[SillyJoe]

Until I know anything for certain, I just wanna guess at the freebies we'll be getting, and have a little chuckle.

lol yup

 

[oti]

Soooooo... should I just do nothing or what?

 

[Stumpokapow]

I'm late to the party

Hope they do the rollback before that posts, yikes!

 

[YianGaruga]

I like people making fun with photoshop of this paypal/cc charges even if we don't know if are true or not.

That's the point. If you post stuff like that you better include a source or context. Just posting screenshots of statements helps no one.

 

[Steel]

Why would you get a new email address? Im confused.

Combo of phone and email address + last 4 credit digits could easily be used for identity theft.