Steam Hacked, time to change your password

On November 6th the Steam service relised that the hacking the happened didn't just effect their forums but may have gotten into the actual steam client. Steam released this post:

Message from Gabe to Steam Community

Announcement - Valve

Yesterday, on November 10, 2011, the following message was sent to all users via a Steam message.

Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users:

Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums.

We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.

We don't have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.

While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well.

We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn't be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password.

We will reopen the forums as soon as we can.

I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

Gabe.

Along with this Blizzard posted on their website that about the attack, letting people know that if you're using the same password for both services it might be a good idea to change that password as well. If you want to see the post on the Blizzard page just click here. If you want to know about Blizzard security they have page dedicated to it that you can find by clicking here.

Also I find it kind of weird that I found out about a web attack from another game company. I never received an e-mail from steam or heard anything about this attack, and I'm not the only one it seems. After reading a lot of the posts on the Blizzard site a lot of people are only just hearing about all of this. It all really  makes me think twice about buying anything from the steam service. Anybody else worrying or is everybody just over reacting. Let the world know with a comment here.