Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: SE England
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2 days ago I had my steam account hacked, no idea how, contacted steam and provided them with the proof it was my account.
Got it back today and there is Call of duty modern warfare 2, l4d2, l4d, day of defeat and 7 other games from Valve, counter strike etc, invoice says the hacker spent 200 euros on the 13th of this month.
Maybe Santa is hacking steam accounts 
Happy days 
[Edited on 15-12-2009 by Sunz]
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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Winner 
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xa0s
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Registered: 4th Mar 08
Location: Dartford, Kent Car: Turbo'd Fabia vRS
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Blatantly paid for with a stolen CC.
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moka
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Registered: 11th Mar 06
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u lucky badger
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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quote:
Originally posted by xa0s
Blatantly paid for with a stolen CC.
If so it will probably get banned 
I wanted to try out MW2 for free for a while now
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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There's been a massive wave of it happening recently due to a new bruteforce tool coming out in October.
Make sure your password is more than 6 characters with at least a number, and also activate steam account verification where no-one can change your password ect without clicking a link that gets sent to your email addy.
http://store.steampowered.com/news/2995/
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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Thanks for the info man
I just did my 3 accounts, all passwords changed, letters, symbols, up and lower case, numbers and all verifired to.
Bruteforce tool ?
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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Yeah from what I've heard the steam authentication servers dont have any protection or measures against bruteforce methods. So using an app a tit can type in your steam ID and brute force the password by going through all the dictionary words and trying shit loads of combinations.
There's one out there which apparently does 10,000 attempts a minute, dont know the truth in that though.
[Edited on 16-12-2009 by Richie]
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ed
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If their systems don't notice 10,000 attempts, or even 10 attempts a minute someone needs to be fired.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Yeah, I would have wanted to have spotted that way before any accounts were compromised. Surely they must lock out after failed attempts?
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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Nope - steam is notoriously bad for everything especially when it comes to account security.
That email verification method was only introduced a few months back to try and calm it all down
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