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    Valve loses credit card details to hacker

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Pitabred, Apr 19, 2007.

  1. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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  2. Charles P. Jefferies

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    I hope maddox gets arrested.

    I posted it on the STEAM forums and got a temp ban 5min later. Nice....
     
    usapatriot, Apr 19, 2007
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  4. shrike

    shrike Notebook Consultant

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    ah what crooks, tnx for the info will be checking my CC a/c closely...
     
    shrike, Apr 19, 2007
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  5. TwilightVampire

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    *has happily managed to avoid giving valve credit card info*

    Wow, incompetence at its finest.
     
    TwilightVampire, Apr 19, 2007
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    Zellio The Dark Knight

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    Valve employees use dual 30" dells.

    That account detail of Valve shows no detail of computers, buildings, nothing...

    It's highly suspicious.
     
    Zellio, Apr 19, 2007
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    It's news like this (real or not) that further precipitates the belief that online transactions are not safe. A Ipsos-Reid statistic (circa 2003) I was reading the other day shows that 59% of Canadians with access to the Internet have yet to make an online purchase.
     
    Aspyred, Apr 20, 2007
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    I don't know what pisses me off more. Valve's repeated incompetence, or the fact that this guy hacked them just because he doesn't like Steam. If he just wanted to show Valve that their system sucks, he could do it without releasing credit card information or other personal data.

    So yeah, I hope he gets arrested too. Sooner rather than later.
     
    Jalf, Apr 20, 2007
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    He didn't hack valve, just some third party site that valve does business with.
     
    Adamal, Apr 20, 2007
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