Steam Break-In
Steam Break-In
Anyone else get their credit cards stolen? I woke up to a bunch of mint.com alerts about spending more than usual on "clothes" and "shopping", looked at my account and saw $1,000 spent at Tiffany & Co., which I certainly never spent.
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- Drinnik
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Re: Steam Break-In
All my credit/debit cards attached to my steam account are dead and cut up long ago. I only use paypal to buy through steam now.
- Vanguard
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Re: Steam Break-In
What Drinnik said, with the added notes that I just got a new card a couple weeks ago and I'm yet to link it to anything. On top of that I have Steam Guard and the password I had was unique to Steam anyway.
Not. Even. Mad.
Not. Even. Mad.
Re: Steam Break-In
I got a new card months ago. I was always very secure with my old one and never had it saved to anything but just in case? Untouchable.
Never EVER trust anyone but yourself when it comes to security.
Never EVER trust anyone but yourself when it comes to security.
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- madrak_the_red
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- Dibria
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Re: Steam Break-In
hmm. shall have to check, I use my Debit card on steam (only use a credit card when ABSOLUTELY necessary) and my bank has frozen my card on no less than three prior occasions due to suspicious activity when nothings been wrong - sods law says they leave it going when someone actually has used it fraudulently.
- Fenrir
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Re: Steam Break-In
Thankfully I chose not to save any details onto Steam but shall definitely keep an eye out.
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- King Kool
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Re: Steam Break-In
Call up my credit card company again. Nothing unusual. Are you sure it wasn't from something else?
- TeamKill
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Re: Steam Break-In
Thanks to random chance I lost my card and was waiting for a replacement when the break in happened, so my info on there was old.
WAT
- JackSlack
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Re: Steam Break-In
No abuses yet; I'm HOPING this means my policy of not saving my card details on Steam paid off.
Re: Steam Break-In
I have my debt card connected to Steam via Paypal. I'm not sure if that means I'm safe or not. But since my account is empty anyway I should be ok.
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- Vigafre
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Re: Steam Break-In
Trixy wrote:I have my debt card...my account is empty...
I lol'd.
Re: Steam Break-In
Yes yes... You laugh at the fact that I'm piss poor. I'll let you. It is pretty funny.
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- Vigafre
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I was more laughing at the "debt card" part. Laughing at poor people: That's no good!
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... ... ... Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha OMG. Spelling error for the win. In my defence it's very early and I'm think about exams, not spelling on a forum. Omg I'm an idiot. He he... ah. Well that bad me feel better before I left for exams. So I'm gonna see this as a win.
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- JackSlack
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Re: Steam Break-In
A debit card is, in fact, the very opposite of a debt card. You have a debit card to avoid the debt.
Man, that should be an advertising campaign. Thanks, Trixy! Get Russel on the phone, I'm off to pitch this thing to Y&R!
Man, that should be an advertising campaign. Thanks, Trixy! Get Russel on the phone, I'm off to pitch this thing to Y&R!
- Greenansatsu
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Re: Steam Break-In
Not sure if connected but did just have my Xbox account hacked, the username was the same and passwords were similar. So now the fun times of changing all my passwords for everything I use.
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- Fugiman
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Oh, I thought the joke was that your account was empty BECAUSE you hooked it up to steam.
Because you spent all your money buying games.
...Yeahhh.
Because you spent all your money buying games.
...Yeahhh.
- JackSlack
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Greenansatsu wrote:Not sure if connected but did just have my Xbox account hacked, the username was the same and passwords were similar. So now the fun times of changing all my passwords for everything I use.
I say again to everything: Password Bank. Grab one. Use it. Different passwords for everything.
You will thank yourself when things like this happen and you realize the only password you need to change is the one that got stolen.
- JackSlack
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Re: Steam Break-In
Password banks are programs like LastPass or 1Password that let you generate random passwords and store them in encrypted lockers locally on your computer. The idea then is that you remember one password, the master password that unlocks it, and you simply use the bank to fill in web forms, log you into Steam, etc.
This is less safe than simply remembering countless 16 digit alphanumeric passwords with special characters; each one different for each account or website. But it's more safe than just about any realistic alternative. It allows you to have much more complex and hard to break passwords without ruining your ability to remember them, and it means you can have dozens or even hundreds of passwords all over the net without a hitch.
This is less safe than simply remembering countless 16 digit alphanumeric passwords with special characters; each one different for each account or website. But it's more safe than just about any realistic alternative. It allows you to have much more complex and hard to break passwords without ruining your ability to remember them, and it means you can have dozens or even hundreds of passwords all over the net without a hitch.
- Dutch guy
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Re: Steam Break-In
Also, LONG passwords better.
(and to quote XKCD)
meaning Correcthorsebatterystaple is better than Tr0ub4dor&3
This makes good passwords much easier to remember. One of my old passwords was Negenhonderdnegenennegentig999. (999 written out in full in dutch, followed by the number)
(and to quote XKCD)
meaning Correcthorsebatterystaple is better than Tr0ub4dor&3
This makes good passwords much easier to remember. One of my old passwords was Negenhonderdnegenennegentig999. (999 written out in full in dutch, followed by the number)
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- Metcarfre
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Re: Steam Break-In
Except brute-force methods will go through dictionary words and combos thereof first, right?
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