Steam hacked - Valve customer data compromised

Email and billing addresses, encrypted passwords and personal data has been breached

The PC's biggest online core games portal has been hacked, with a database of information breached and personal data compromised.

A plundered Steam database, managed by games giant Valve, contains information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card data.

The Washington group’s president, Gabe Newell, has issued an apology to users.

As of October 2011, there were around 35 million active user accounts on Steam. It is not known if a portion or the entirety of Valve’s customer network has been hacked into.

The attack likely occurred on Sunday, November 6th, when it was discovered that the Steam forums had been breached.

“We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums,” Newell explained in a massage to the media.

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