Hackers have been in the news a lot this year. Following high profile attacks on Sony and Lulzsec’s hack of Nintendo, the latest developer to fall victim is none other than Valve. It has been reported that the Steam forums have been hacked into by a group known as “FknOwned” (clever, guys), who promise to fulfill requests of any internet debauchery forum goers want to participate in.
The hacker group is said to have inserted an ad for it’s own site into the Steam forums, which promises ”general discussion sections, hacking tutorials and tools, porn, free giveaways and much more.” Not that people couldn’t find the majority of items on that list with a simple Google search, but the ad is probably something that has the team at Valve up in arms — especially with the emphasis they’ve been putting on security as of late.
Valve has taken the forums offline for “maintenance,” with no estimate as to when they will be back online. It seems a bit too coincidental that Valve would take the forums offline just moments after reports came in that those forums have been hacked, so it’s likely that these reports are true. The Steam Blotter system is also temporarily offline. There’s no word on whether the two are connected, but one cannot blame Valve for taking all non-essential systems down just to be safe.
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Users are also reporting that they have received the above message in an e-mail from Steam itself. Unfortunately, we at Game Rant cannot prove the validity of that claim, but it’s worth keeping an eye on your inbox just in case. We’d also like to remind users not to give their name or passwords to anyone, as that’s how you end up with multiple purchases of Alpha Protocol.
With all of the recent hacking reports coming out the past couple of months, this is certainly unfortunate news for Valve. This year they showed off a feature that would help protect Steam accounts from hacks, and this move by “FknOwned” has probably planted some doubts in the minds of Steam users. One can only hope that this incident is isolated to the Steam forums and will not affect any users directly.
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And this kind of BS is why I don’t store my credit card data when I purchase something on Steam. I’ve been expecting an attack on Steam for months now, but only hitting the forums is kinda juvenile (soft target).
“FknOwned”?… Really? Until you get a cool name, I will not ever take you seriously.
But dude, that’s a SUPER cool name… Right?
“Fknowned.com”
Clever.
Just a couple of fat kids in a basement trying to act cool by hacking a cloud gaming site promising porn? Im sure every one knows about Google its not hard to find porn. They fail with that site name 2.
You suck at reporting. You first of all forgot that fkn0wned denied responsibility for the attack. I’ve been a member of that type of scene for a long time, it’s not that unlikely they were framed.
Secondly, the name? How is the name any relevant at all.
So in other words, you’re a childish little script kiddie, whose idea of cleverness, is coming up with names like Jack Cole (no wonder you think stupid names don’t reflect poorly on the user, you’re exactly the kind of kid that loves stupid names).
“fknowned” paints these kids and…well, kids. Uncreative kids at that. Hell even though they’re hackers that still feel the name to self-censor their own name. I find it hilarious that they need to hack other sites, just to advertise what amounts to a crappy forum, with cheat codes, porn and what most certainly promises to be the THE worst conversations this side of 4chan.
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