People pose in front of a display showing the word 'cyber' in binary code, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica December 27, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Steam is the largest digital distribution platform for PC video games. But on Wednesday, Valve, which runs the Steam store, announced account theft has become an epidemic.
Around 77,000 Steam accounts are “hijacked and pillaged each month,”. The company says account theft has been around since the inception of Steam in 2003, but “the problem has increased twenty-fold” since the 2013 introduction of something called Steam Trading.
Basically, Steam Trading lets people trade games, in-game items, and that are stored in your Steam account. But unfortunately, this system has made it easier to steal from other users, and more difficult for Valve to protect its Steam customers. The main problem is once something is stolen, people trade those items again and again, and often times, it’s eventually “sold to an innocent user,” according to Valve.
Valve says “enough money now moves around the system that stealing virtual Steam goods has become a real business for skilled hackers practically every active Steam account is now involved in the economy, via items or trading cards, with enough value to be worth a hacker’s time. Essentially all Steam accounts are now targets.” The short-term fix was to duplicate all the stolen items in order to replace them for the victims; but Valve points out that “duplicating the stolen items devalues all the other equivalent items in the economy.” But Valve is working on more long-term fixes. The company said it’s improved security features, closed loopholes, and improved their system for telling people when their accounts are at risk. Valve has also created a specialized two-factor authentication, the to protect its users. It uses a separate device aside from your PC to confirm your identity, like a smartphone, which is not as easily compromised as PCs, according to Valve. Valve explained why they needed to create their own special two-factor authentication: We needed to create our own two-factor authenticator because we need to show users the contents of the trade on a separate device and have them confirm it there.
Requiring users to take a code from a generic authenticator and enter it into a hijacked PC to confirm a trade meant that hackers could trick them into trading away items they didn't intend to. This basically made it impossible to use a generic third party authenticator, such as Google Authenticator, to confirm trades. Valve said it’s considered removing trading entirely, which was the easiest solution even though it generates revenue for the company. But in the end, the company settled on two-factor authentication and a series of other changes, including a way to approve trades.
You can learn more about the changes here. Right now, Valve says most people haven’t protected their accounts with the new two-factor authentication, and many don’t even know about this theft issue.
People that haven’t enabled the new security features can still trade, but they’ll have to wait several days for the trade to go through, which gives Valve time to discover if Steam accounts have been hacked and recover them before theft can occur. Valve says it’s aware that adding security steps makes it more difficult to use its products. But it also said “this is one of those times where we feel like we’re forced to insert a step or shut it all down.” “We’ve done our best to make the cost as small as possible, for as few people as possible, while still retaining its effectiveness.”.
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OK, before i start i want to say i have not yet fallen for a account hack. In the past few weeks two of my friends have almost lost their accounts. Luckly, both times i was online and avaliable to help them. One of my friends acctualy lost his account, had it sold to someone, and got it back.
I dont know if your aware of it or not, but there are people out there who make a lot of money hacking and selling STEAM accounts. There are several ways they attempt this, and i intend to go over the main 2 in hopes that you will have a ready reply when its your turn. Attempt Style 1: the VAC Moderator In this type of attempt a person (generally named VAC Moderator) will add you to his friends list, claiming to work for STEAM.
They will lay one of the following lines on you, and do their best to convince you they are who they say they are and that they are trying to help you. Dont fall for it.
VAC Moderator: Dear Steam User, In order to continue using Steam you must validate your account by replying to this message. You must include your account information in this format in the message: Username: (your Steam username) E-Mail: (the email you registered your account to.) Password: (the password you used to log in to your Steam account.) Our database will be formatted soon, due to some damage caused by some users. We will need to record our active users and add them to our database once again. You must validate your account within 30 days or else your account will be closed. Thank you for your cooperation, Best regards, Steam Account Managing Team VAC Moderator: Hello how are you?
We were told to contact you through steam friend network. Your account is set to be vac banned and hacked which means you will no longer have an steam account. Someone is hacking your account and will be done within hours the safest way to contact you was on here.
The only way you can keep your account is if I generate it which means to renew and protect from hackers. Shall i generate your account?
Vac Moderator: Hello, Steam Automated Support has detected multiple ip usage on this steam account. This account is in danger of being shut down unless immediate actions are taken. For verification and full control over this account please state your email, your Account name and the current password. You will need to go offline and come back in a few minutes while we varifty this account.
But whats the average steam user to do? Know that if you give the person claiming to work for steam you info you will most likely never get on your account again. NEVER give anyone your account name or/and password. If you are contacted by a person namer 'VAC Moderator' tell them to F#CK off. Or, knowing they are scamers, mess with them.
Convince them that you work at steam and that you are reporting them to the police, or what ever. Attempt Style 2: get ALL GAMES FREE This type of hack is getting more common, but the basics are the same.
They want your user name and your password. Some even have a website to make the scam seem real.
Some claim that they done need your info, just DL and install. LOL, i even saw on that said 'This is not a scam.'
Awww how nice, glad to hear that. This is a classic example of the GET ALL GAMES FREE scam. Dont do it, one of my friends did and never got his account back.
Notice that they ask for yor account name and password, just like the first style. Also, notice that they ask for you to have at least one game installed already. This makes your account sellable.
Another good example of this type of scam. Notice that once again they ask for your name/pass.
By asking for it in code, they are trying to make the scam sound real. This is a different way to do the same thing. Its a little more crafty than the others, it shows itself as a program that gets the games for you, but what its really DLing is Trogens and virus infested files. I just though i should throw this type in too. Note that what these programs do is let a few people, maybe 1 in 1000 actually DL the games.
This lucky person will run around bragging ang get all their friends to DL it. And guess what? OK, now your warned. Never give away your password or your user name.
Never fall for the free games scam. And, if you ever meet the VAC Moderator. Tell him to suck your balls. Posted by Xaoc They're Not getting hacked, it's fools falling for the so called 'steam moderators' and even when steam sticks a warning in every single chat window they still fall for it, so personally to those who fell for it, you deserve everything you get.
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Go ahead and bitch at me for saying it or thumb me down, whatever but if your going to bitch do it in my profile so I can go ahead and block you. Well, SOME people are technologicaly retarded. 'cough' a couple of my friends 'cough' Pirates Ninjas. 10y. Posted by Ben-Hur They aren't really 'hacking' if they're preying on people's stupidity. But why must those with 'stupidity' (major cough) be punished???
Musn't we help them NOT be so gullible when it comes to this type of stuff? Kindergarten students can understand the idea of 'NEVER GIVE YOUR PASSWORD TO ANYONE'. If you're dumb enough to fall for a SCAM (not a hack) like these then I really have very little sympathy for you. By 'major cough' I wasn't exactly referring to myself:P It's just that I don't feel that it is right for hackers to PROFIT from other's stupidity. Pirates Ninjas. 10y. Posted by AsianBorat By 'major cough' I wasn't exactly referring to myself:P It's just that I don't feel that it is right for hackers to PROFIT from other's stupidity.
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Like I said, they aren't hackers, they're scam artists who bilk idiots out of their accounts. They're hackers when they maliciously gain access to the accounts through use of software or hardware exploitation. This thread annoys me. It acts like account hijacks are a new phenomenon. They've been doing shit like this for years, and not just games. Back From the Dead. 10y.
Posted by Xaoc They're Not getting hacked, it's fools falling for the so called 'steam moderators' and even when steam sticks a warning in every single chat window they still fall for it, so personally to those who fell for it, you deserve everything you get. Go ahead and bitch at me for saying it or thumb me down, whatever but if your going to bitch do it in my profile so I can go ahead and block you. I think we all know that it's not literally hacking. XD It's just a term used to describe it. Just sayin'.:3.
During the last few years, I have encountered at least 9 cracked versions of Steam. The most useful part of the cracks I have seen is that they allow you to download games directly from Steam content servers, with a blank account, or with no account at all. In cracked versions of Steam, you simply pick a game in the 'my games' list, right click, and install whatever game you want, without paying, from the Steam servers.
Then, after the game has been downloaded, it can be launched using the cracked client or one of the many Steam game cache file launchers out there, and then you can play online with it. (Not on VAC2 servers; unsecured, cracked servers only) This is a huge problem, but it could be fixed very easily.
Here's my idea: Right now, Steam relies partially on the client-side version of Steam to check if the steam account owns the game. (I believe the function is called SteamIsAppSubscribed?) This should be eliminated. All verification should be done at the Steam servers themselves, not on the client side software, which can be cracked! The easy and permanent fix for this problem is: If someone wants to download a game, a message is sent to the Steam servers requesting 'I want to download the game.' The Steam servers reply, 'Ok, send your username and password (encrypted, of course) so we can verify if you actually own the game.' I think the encrypted password is stored in either the clientregistry.blob file or Steam's memory, so the user would not have to enter username and password (to decrease inconvenience).
Then, the once the Steam servers have recieved the information, they check to see of that account has the correct password, and then checks if the account owns the game. If the request is valid, Steam creates the cache files and starts to download; if it isn't valid, Steam breaks the connection. This download request should have to be done everytime the user logs into Steam, to make sure the downloads are legitimate. This is a very basic idea. VALVe, why do you allow Steam cracks to work? Do you simply just not care? I am very surprised you have not fixed this yet.
It will not hinder the legitimate game community in any way. It seems that although the Steam idea was created to stop piracy, it has actually supported more piracy. I heard somewhere that VALVe wants Steam to make game distribution easier for game developers, and doesn't care at all about people trying to crack it. Is this true? Or maybe you just care about your cafe system for revenue?
Come on, VALVe! It's not that hard! You are supporting cracks of your own product by continuing to allow insecure downloading! Or perhaps this is the reason: Those who use Steam cracks know that you can download and play most multiplayer games, but you can't download any single player games.
For instance: Counter Strike but not Half Life Half Life 2 Deathmatch but not Half Life 2 Dark Messiah multiplayer but not singleplayer Get the idea? After a few months of being annoyed at the non-VAC2 hackers, as well with the Steam servers being down multiple times each month, you get mad and buy the legitimate game. What do other people think about this? Cracked clients can only play on VAC secured servers when they are down for maintenance, which is almost never. VALVe has pretty much fixed cafe accounts and their problems, which once allowed anyone to just log in to the account and play on secured servers, and there's almost no way around it unless you have a legit certificate on your computer, which is very hard to do. Either way it's still bypassable. I think VALVe is doing the best they can, and as far as I've read, some major people have left the cracking community because of lame repackers taking all the glory.
So it's slowly crumbling apart as I can tell. EDIT: Oh and your statement; 'It seems that although the Steam idea was created to stop piracy, it has actually supported more piracy.' I don't think you have a grasp of the ratio of working steam games to any other working cracked game. It's incredibly small. For one, you need to be half computer litterate to be able to install half the cracks floating around, and then they'll need constant updating with every steam platform update (which takes a while considering these crackers aren't doing it for a living), and the amount of problems most people playing cracked copies of hl2 have, it really makes you glad that we DO have steam to make their lives harder.
Click to expand.GASP. Yeah, I do think Valve are doing the best to fight cracks and such, though. They have the right idea.
Though I'm not against pirating games. I always hated buying a game, them it sucking ass, then me just forgetting about it, whoops, waste of money. I download the game, and if I love it, I buy it. There have been lots of times I've done that, Need For Speed: Most Wanted was one. Age of Empires 3 was another.I use downloading the games and playing them a way of testing to see if I'll like 'em. Click to expand.Do you know how hard it is to get a cracked game (any cracked game) that you can trust? Anyone with even a basic knowledge of computers and the internet is very wary of downloading anything.
Of course you could trust a web site such as cnn.com or firefox.org to download something, but you wouldn't entirely trust insert warez site here. It takes time and luck to find a crack for the specific game you're looking for.
However, with Steam cracks, you just have to install Steam, copy the crack into the Steam folder, download, and play. But there are a lot of maintenance issues. Click to expand.There are some problems with keeping the cracked client working because of Steam updates, but patches are always released very soon after the update. I know that cIntX has released patches for Steam on the same day the update was released, for the last few updates. It never takes more than a couple of days. As for all of these problems with cracked clients, I'm wondering if VALVe actually wants people to use them.
You can download a game and have it work somewhat, but be very buggy. And then the whole thing stops working as soon as a new update is released. After a few cycles of this, you get mad and buy the game, giving VALVe business. It's kind of like a full game trial, with lots of bugs but no time limit, which you can upgrade to a working version for some money. Besides, VALVe isn't being hurt at all in terms of buisness because of those who aren't legit. It's like an advertising system. Click to expand.Yeah that is a fairly good idea, I guess.
But then there's still torrenting to think about. The steam client is free, as are accounts. All you then need to do is get the GCFs from where ever. I really don't know how VALVe could stay ahead of the curve.
Essentially what these teams have already done is create a seperate steam-based client. All they use steam for is a base to extract the GCF content (which isn't even needed since you have extracted non-steam installs). Your idea, while a good one, is just another staller.
Is the only crack that seems to work now.the others including one called pacsteam or something is stupid.so after downloading extract it and double click on the.exe file.click on apply patch.and navigate to ur steam folder(where u have installed it).then finally u'll see in the steam folder that there is a file called steam.dll click on it and click on open (remeber to do quit steam before u do this step).it should show successfuly patched.if not then ur steam is not closed or u will have to repeat it again. 5.log in u'll see 1000s of games in option.just click on one of the games and click install.it should work fine. I have written this whole thing although softwares not mine credit goes to - Diviton MaddoxX Eddy-K i know hell number of people will say this is a stupid thing and not good enough for a hack site:mad: dont reply then. I dont care:'( steam servers are currently busy solution: source. Quote:Steam Servers Are Currently Unavailable or Too Busy Question I receive the message The Steam Servers are currently unavailable.
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Please try again later. Or The Steam Servers are too busy while using Steam - what should I do? Answer Change your Download Region Try changing your Download Region to see if it affects the issue: On Windows 1.Start Steam 2.Go to Steam Settings Downloads tab 3.Under Download region, select a different but relatively close region. 4.Try launching or installing the game once more On Mac 1.Start Steam 2.Click on Steam Preferences Downloads tab 3.Under Download region, select a different but relatively close region. 4.Try launching or installing the game once more Renaming ClientRegistry.blob It's possible you may be receiving this message if Steam isn't properly configured or if configuration files are missing. Renaming the ClientRegistry.blob will cause Steam to re-download fresh copies of required configuration files, which can solve a large number of issues. Steam does not support connecting through a network DMZ (de-militarized zone), so this setting must be disabled in your router for Steam to function.
For more information, please follow our guide to Using a Router with Steam. Many Steam issues can be caused by a firewall, anti-virus, or a problem with your router or internet connection. Please use the Troubleshooting Network Connectivity guide to ensure that your network is properly configured for use with Steam. Steam Network Outage If the Steam Network is experiencing a large amount of traffic or if the network is temporarily off-line, you may not be able to use Steam immediately. Please follow the link below to check the Steam Network Status page: Steam Network Status Recent purchase not recognized yet If you experience this error while trying to install or register a game, log out of Steam and log back in to determine whether or not your purchase was successfully processed: Right click the Steam icon Select the Settings option, then Log in as a different user. After Steam restarts you will be prompted for your username and password. After logging in you should be able to download and/or install the games.
Empire: Total War If you are receiving this error when attempting to install or launch this game, it may be a result of activating an extra content key (Additional units, etc) without activating the primary key for this game. Please make sure you have activated the CD Key found on the back cover of the game manual. (, 04:46 PM)Unregistered Wrote: (, 04:44 PM)shadow hunter Wrote: uhm no.u cant this games will disappear the second u reinstall ur steam file.but if u crack it again games will come back.the thing u can do is sell this steam crack.best u do is try this on a different account which has no games installed beforehand. Whats with the.? Its better not ot take any risk.cause when its cracking the dll file.the probablity is it may remove the already installed games and will give u the option to install again.