2011 — Steam: The November 6 defacement of Steam forums led to an…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
The November 6 defacement of Steam forums led to an investigation that revealed hackers had accessed a Steam database with sensitive user information. The database contained user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses, and encrypted credit card information. Users were prompted to change their Steam forum passwords and encouraged to change their Steam account passwords. Anyone using their Steam forum password for other websites should change their
Root cause
Hacking