Steam Accounts Hacked, Credit Card Info Obtained

Valve's games-on-demand Steam service has been hacked,
the company said Thursday, saying that a database containing private
user information has been stolen.

That information includes user names, hashed and salted passwords, game
purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card
information, according to an email sent by Valve managing director Gabe
Newell to Gamasutra.

According to Newell, the company does not currently have any evidence of
credit card misuse at press time, though warns that Steam users should
nonetheless closely monitor their credit card activity.

Additionally, Newell said that the company is not aware of any
compromised Steam accounts. While "a few" Steam web forum accounts were
compromised, forcing a mandatory password change for all users, it does
not appear that any main Steam accounts have been breached.

"I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience," writes Newell.

The news closely mirrors
the infamous PlayStation Network attack from earlier this year, though
Valve's public response time appears to be much shorter than Sony's was.

I use PayPal. I never pay directly using credit cards for nearly all online transactions.
Nothing is truly hack proof, but it never hurts to have an additional safety net.

hmm that might explain why my facebook was hacked the same day i foolishly had the same steam and facebook pass, they also tried my email but that had a diff pass.
Facebook security fortunately locked my account since someone logged in from the US and not New Zealand.

Yeah, saw this. Better get on that whole new passwords things. ~_~

must make it a must to check ur credit bill statement online at least 1-2 times a month in case something like this happen heh