Steam Question

jay303 · 15 Nov 2011 at 20:45

hi all

just a quick question related to steam, is it safe to buy from them cause i cant find any info on whats going on with hack that happened?

thanks

Confused · 15 Nov 2011 at 20:46

Don't see any reason why not.

jay303 · 15 Nov 2011 at 20:48

cool been itching to buy gta vice city for days now

shadow_boxer · 15 Nov 2011 at 20:50

Should be fine. I'd just make sure you've changed your login password first.

Pestilence · 15 Nov 2011 at 21:02

Change your login password, verify your email address, and ensure Steam Guard is enabled. Then purchase away!

KIA · 15 Nov 2011 at 21:36

Don't save address and CC information.

jay303 · 15 Nov 2011 at 21:51

if you use paypal it then becomes irevilent doesnt it?

dave_beast · 15 Nov 2011 at 21:52

It was the forum that was hacked AFAIK

Tummy · 15 Nov 2011 at 21:58

I thought it was the forum was hacked, either way just opt to not save your details.

Don't use PayPal for Steam though, terrible system.

I bought The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim at the weekend from Steam

GTO656 · 15 Nov 2011 at 22:12

Yes its the forum tht was hacked so need to be worried about purchasing.

gamerdude1989 · 15 Nov 2011 at 23:12

paypal is the best way to pay for games, its completely seperate to the steam client, there for, If steam client gets hacked, your payment details arent visible, as its on paypal, not on steam....

Ryansb12 · 15 Nov 2011 at 23:27

Its fine as long as you don't store your payment details. I bought Skyrim at the weekend!

Have fun!

Tummy · 15 Nov 2011 at 23:42

gamerdude1989 said:
paypal is the best way to pay for games, its completely seperate to the steam client, there for, If steam client gets hacked, your payment details arent visible, as its on paypal, not on steam....

It's fine as long as PayPal works, you will get your account banned for problems with payment, of which there have been numerous threads on here about.

I'd stick to paying with a card on Steam.

KIA · 16 Nov 2011 at 10:53

Tummy said:
It's fine as long as PayPal works, you will get your account banned for problems with payment, of which there have been numerous threads on here about.

Another person preaching a bad security practice. Nothing wrong with PayPal. A couple of issues out of millions if not billions of transactions. I have used it for several hundred Steam purchases.

Tummy · 16 Nov 2011 at 12:58

KIA said:
Another person preaching a bad security practice. Nothing wrong with PayPal. A couple of issues out of millions if not billions of transactions. I have used it for several hundred Steam purchases.

Why run the risk?

wildman · 16 Nov 2011 at 14:09

KIA said:
Don't save address and CC information.

Ryansb12 said:
Its fine as long as you don't store your payment details. I bought Skyrim at the weekend!

Have fun!

people keep saying this but yet provide any proof that it is safer ? the details would have been stored (encrypted) with the transaction information surely, so whether you store them or not there will have been some trace of your details server side anyway ?

Its not like Sony who kept them as a text file, steam have confirmed that all passwords and card details were stored hashed and salted, so by the time any would be thief gets through that your card will be expired, and more to boot, if they can crack hashed and salted financial details then they are wasting their time hacking steam ?They would be going after banks where billions of transaction go through a day making it far easier to try and pass off undetected.

So why would they try and drop a massive DDOS on steam forums to get to personal financial information they can't use anyway ? It makes no freaking sense unless they thought it was christmas time and the details would be text file style like SOE ?

KIA · 16 Nov 2011 at 14:40

Tummy said:
Why run the risk?

Risk percentage is incredibly low.

wildman said:
people keep saying this but yet provide any proof that it is safer ? the details would have been stored (encrypted) with the transaction information surely, so whether you store them or not there will have been some trace of your details server side anyway ?

You don't know how the address information was stored. The less they know, the better.

N$X · 16 Nov 2011 at 14:46

i have bought several games from steam, been using it for years. never had any issues and some fab offers come up on classic games.

steam, paypal, ebay or hotmail. there's always some crook trying to obtain your details in one form or another.

Tune · 16 Nov 2011 at 15:38

The amount of games i have alone should answer your question

hyip001 · 17 Nov 2011 at 00:09

If you do use paypal, just make sure you have enough funds! Otherwise you will have to go through a lot of unnecessary hassle to get your account re-activated.