Matthew on 11/11/2011 at 15:30
Happy to oblige! :D
dj_ivocha on 11/11/2011 at 15:47
Tomorrow's announcement by Gabe Newell, leaked hot from the presses:
Quote Posted by gaben
12 November 2011
Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users:
In the course of our investigation of last week's hacker intrusion of our servers, we discovered that a folder containing 4 concept art pictures of upcoming games was accessed as well. As a result, we have no choice but to push back Half-Life 2: Episode 3's release date by 2 years, meaning the game now has a projected worldwide release date of December 1st, 2018.
I am truly sorry this was necessary, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
:cool:
Ulukai on 11/11/2011 at 17:47
Never let any website (or Steam ) keep my credit card details on file. Changed my password, changed my secret question, Steam Guard makes sure all is good. Not on fire. No problem.
Will buy games again.
smallfry on 11/11/2011 at 20:07
Meh, although it's unfortunate that they got hacked like this, Valve at least was doing the right thing by hashing and salting passwords as well as encrypting credit card information. I would still change your password (to a unique password please, thanks) and never save your credit card information, just to be on the extra safe side. But I doubt these crackers can do shit with the data they stole.
Also, there's a lot of misinformation from ignorant bastards who spent 2 minutes looking up "hashed and salted" and now think they're experts, so don't believe everything you hear (but I guess that goes for everything that the retarded steam forumites say).
Nameless Voice on 11/11/2011 at 20:55
Quote Posted by Ulukai
Never let any website (or Steam ) keep my credit card details on file. Changed my password, changed my secret question, Steam Guard makes sure all is good. Not on fire. No problem.
Will buy games again.
QFT.
What's the secret question for anyway?
Muzman on 12/11/2011 at 01:21
Quote Posted by smallfry
Also, there's a lot of misinformation from ignorant bastards who spent 2 minutes looking up "hashed and salted"
Heyyyy!
Anyway, they're back up now
What's so special about Steam Guard? I didn't even know what it was until this. Assumed it was some external PGP sort of thing, initially. But apparently not. But I've been accessing steam from a couple of machines for a while now, so it seems I'm using it.
Vernon on 12/11/2011 at 08:35
Hm. Pretty sure you need to opt into it, Muz. It is in options.
Shadowcat on 12/11/2011 at 08:59
Stupid question, but where can I see if Steam has my credit card details on record?
I usually ask sites not to keep them (for exactly this kind of reason), but I have a nasty feeling that you have to opt-out each time and that I ended up submitting them by accident.
I looked in the settings screens, but couldn't see anything obvious.
Vernon on 12/11/2011 at 09:30
iirc you change that option when you check out and choose payment method
Shadowcat on 12/11/2011 at 09:40
So I have to pretend to buy something, then? Right. I guess that's obvious. I just expected to find some kind of "manage my payment options" screen somewhere. Not having that seems a bit lame.
So that tells me the answer (yes, they do). Now why isn't there any "remove this card" option? (I realise it doesn't make any difference to this particular situation, but I'd prefer to return to a state where Steam didn't have this data).
edit: Aha.
Quote Posted by PigLick
When you change password it deletes the current saved card info as well
Confirmed. Thanks, PigLick.
