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They were mad about no EP3 yet.
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So people aren't allowed to express relief because Valve responded quickly and apologetically to the hacking, but are also not allowed to condemn Sony who responded slowly, had NO safeguards in place, repeatedly changed its story in an attempt to cover up the incident and its impact, refusing to give an unconditional apology to its customers and blaming the incident on earthquakes and communists?
The fanboys are definitely not all coming from Valve's side of the fence...
Sigh.. Sony came out about it, so did Valve.. one gets praised the other burned to the ground. Fanboyism at its best.
This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.
How about you try reading even the summary? Note the following:
This is *extremely* different from Sony's hack because in the case of Sony the intruders actually got useful information. Sony, the bunch of dumbasses they are, stored that shit in plain text. *IF* what Steam is reporting is true, then there really isn't much to worry about. The important parts, password and CC info, remain uncompromised.
Funny, and now you're on the receiving end this time around and seem butthurt that people are putting Sony and Valve together, they both got hacked. Same crap different pile. They both could have done better, I don't give a damn how timely Valve is "perceived" to be. They both need to be held responsible and fanboys not just yourself, make me lol hard.
I don't think I had any CC info saved on either of my Steam accounts, but where do I check to be sure?
Put a game into your basket. Continue on to purchase for myself. It won't buy it until you confirm. If the next page asks you to confirm without entering any CC info it, it's saved (and it will show the last 4 digits). If it asks you to put CC info in, you're good.
that's you. How many noobs have crappy passwords that with regardless how much you spice it and how much it was encrypted with what encryption it doesn't take em long to crack it.I am not worried - unlike Sony, Valve had hashed and salted passwords and encrypted credit card information. Even basic currently used encryption cannot be broken without use of supercomputers. More complex encrytion is currently perfectly safe agains anyone except NSA.
The important parts, password and CC info, remain uncompromised.
Sony waited nearly a month.
Wasn't it that in Sony's case, the hackers actually managed to get the password and credit card info?
Here, Valve had those info encrypted so even though they got into their system, all they saw was encrypted info.
I like Valve and have over 120 games on Steam, but you gotta call a spade a spade. They messed up, no matter how much they apologize. Considering they are probably the biggest PC distributor out there, yeah, that's a big problem.
Shows that haters just like to hate on Sony.. and bat a blind eye to their platform of choice. They both rank the same in my eyes in how they handled the problem. Data loss is data loss, who knows what they could be covering up? Just like Sony.
Depends on the particular encryption setup.I am not worried - unlike Sony, Valve had hashed and salted passwords and encrypted credit card information.
Even basic currently used encryption cannot be broken without use of supercomputers. More complex encrytion is currently perfectly safe agains anyone except NSA.
Maybe we'll get... FREE HATS!
Maybe we'll get... FREE HATS!
EA masterminded this hack, of course.
Everyone knows EA is a part of the Illuminati.