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Millions Of Steam Game Keys Stolen After Hacker Breaches Gaming Site (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the security-woes dept.

An anonymous reader writes:A little over nine million keys used to redeem and activate games on the Steam platform were stolen by a hacker who breached a gaming news site last month. The site, DLH.net, provides news, reviews, cheat codes, and forums, was breached on July 31 by an unnamed hacker, whose name isn't known but was also responsible for the Dota 2 forum breach. The site also allows users to share redeemable game keys through its forums, which along with the main site has around 3.3 million unique registered users, according to breach notification site LeakedSource.com, which obtained a copy of the database. A known vulnerability found in older vBulletin forum software, which powers the site's community, allowed the hacker to access the databases. The data stolen from the forum includes full names, usernames, scrambled passwords, email addresses, dates of birth, join dates, avatars, Steam usernames, and user activity data. Facebook access tokens were stolen for those who signed in with their social account.

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  1. This was NSA (Lizard Squad) [FUCK YOU FBI TOO] by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The same ones who shut down PS4 networks on Christmas.

    They want Steam (Valve) to succumb to US government pressure and join their spyware networks.

    If they are pussies they will not do it. Ian Murdock wasn't a pussy, that is why he was killed and FBI are now all over Debian and pushing Debian on TOR.

  2. FBI are in FULL PANIC MODE --- NSA DID THIS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FBI know exactly who.

    Also beware of Cloudflare captchas. They can direct you to the actual site you want to reach, or a fake US gov mirror.

    Just let Slashdot be the place where the US government look stupid. I like this.