Steam account hacked

~>Dg<~ · 9 Feb 2010 at 15:53

Tefal said:
You've probably got something on your pc (or someone else has if you've logged on there) no way they could brute forces a large random password without dieing of old age.

pc was clean and checked with numerous things. dont login on no one elses pc with my account.doesnt matter now as have it back but not all steam acounts stolen are from silly links given to them .

Tefal · 9 Feb 2010 at 15:58

wakayoda said:
tbh why could steam not make the fact that you can lock your account to one email a must do to use steam, I know it then emails your account to verify the changes, since many people pour so much money in why is this not required to use steam

It's there as an option for people who want it.

You ignored the 2-3 warning saying "don't do this" with two of them immediately before you filled in your details steam could do nothing more.

Kenai · 9 Feb 2010 at 16:09

wakayoda said:
so what is the message that keeps getting sent?

well if my account is VAC banned then it has been "hacked" in some form

What is the message? It's a link to a phishing site, not a hack.

If your account is VAC banned it'll be because they used cheats on it.

You didn't get hacked, your account didn't hacked. You gave it away through greed and stupidity. 'You can't con an honest man'

wakayoda · 9 Feb 2010 at 16:59

more like begging for a decent game, as a student Free is often tempting

wakayoda · 9 Feb 2010 at 17:00

Don't you think I know not to do this again,

AMG · 9 Feb 2010 at 17:53

Tefal said:
"You are going to a non steam site DO NOT enter any account details."

never seen it do that word for word, but it does give a warning about phishing, or a security risk to the system.

but yeah it should give this warning

when a link is given i I think it should say this"DO NOT GIVE OUT YOUR STEAM ACCOUNT DETAILS" feel free to quote me and put muppet at the end ;p or whatever you see fit

and no its not actually hacked, as it don't involve guess passwords as you the user was dim enough to give them it.

Tefal · 9 Feb 2010 at 18:02

AMG said:
never seen it do that word for word, but it does give a warning about phishing, or a security risk to the system.

it's not word for word no i couldn't remember it

But it does say if you're going to a steam site or another site.

Tefal · 9 Feb 2010 at 18:03

wakayoda said:
more like begging for a decent game, as a student Free is often tempting

And if steam was doing a 3 free games offer you'd get a big steam window when you login + the store page would have it plastered all over.

Evilsod · 9 Feb 2010 at 18:27

wakayoda said:
more like begging for a decent game, as a student Free is often tempting

I have to ask, what exactly are you studying and where? Because neither of those answers are likely to be impressive if you're that stupid.

Theres a reason the saying goes "If it seems good to be true, it is". No 'free' offer is tempting because in this e-world, free = strings attached.

wakayoda · 9 Feb 2010 at 22:19

creative and media higher diploma, just paying for photoshop has drained funds so much and now this **** from you people, just give some good advice instead or reminding me about the stupidity of this

Why the hell would I put this here If I thought I would get this from you, so helpful usually

Kenai · 9 Feb 2010 at 22:47

You got the good advice already, several times.

CONTACT STEAM SUPPORT

Squark · 9 Feb 2010 at 22:48

Advice?

Raise a ticket with Steam, its all you can do.
Try and find any record of purchases that relate to your account so that they can verify thats its yours

Honestly though, what do you expect people to say? Well done?

wakayoda · 9 Feb 2010 at 22:49

what was the first thing I did?

wakayoda · 9 Feb 2010 at 22:50

urm lets see provide links to ways of checking VAC status

past experience, what happened to their account

I sent the ticket before creating this thread

Squark · 9 Feb 2010 at 22:55

Probably should have asked for that then

wakayoda · 9 Feb 2010 at 23:17

andshrew · 9 Feb 2010 at 23:22

wakayoda said:
urm lets see provide links to ways of checking VAC status

past experience, what happened to their account

I sent the ticket before creating this thread

Check VAC bans

Valve has a hard line approach to VAC bans - so if whoever has access to your account get's it banned then it banned.

If you've submitted a ticket with all the required information you should get your account back within a couple of days. Next time make sure to set up email verification on the account, and don't use the same password for your email and steam accounts.

Evilsod · 10 Feb 2010 at 07:09

wakayoda said:
creative and media higher diploma, just paying for photoshop has drained funds so much and now this **** from you people, just give some good advice instead or reminding me about the stupidity of this

Why the hell would I put this here If I thought I would get this from you, so helpful usually

Wait, you paid for photoshop? a) who pays for stuff like that when they're a student and b) doesn't the uni generally give you copies of that if you require it for your degree?

You've been given all the advice there is, all thats left is your own stupidity. Google search could've told you *everything* there is left to know. Hell so would a steam forum search.