It's all good and well to say we're all safe with steamguard and whatnot but just look at Valve's message. It's full of doubt and not very reassuring.
Crossel777
The message doesn't seem particularly vague.
The hackers potentially have access to:
- user names (big deal)
- hashed and salted passwords (again, not a huge issue - they're encrypted, there's SteamGuard, and the forum passwords don't matter)
- game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses (these three might worry people who care about their identities, but it's not exactly compromising stuff on its own)
- encrypted credit card information (the main issue - but it *is* encrypted).
They don't have evidence that any of this information was actually taken, or that their encryptions have been broken. If they had, they'd announce it right away, and tell us to take action immediately.
They don't have any evidence of credit card misuse, but suggest keeping an eye on your cards. That's fair enough - nothing unusual there.
They do know that some forum accounts have been compromised, so it's possible that the hackers have accessed forum usernames and passwords. Thus if you've used that forum password for any other accounts, you should change that password on your other accounts.
That's the only password change that they strongly encourage, and again, it makes perfect sense. Fortunately it shouldn't even apply to people who use multiple passwords for things.
They don't see the point in mandating that everyone get a new Steam password, but say that it wouldn't be a bad idea to change it. Again, that's fair enough.
I don't really see the doubt there, or the lack of assurance.
Sure, they don't know the extent of the hack, but on the plus side, there's no clear evidence that anything particularly damaging has occured. Also, the Store is still up and running, as are all of their games servers, so it looks like they're not worried about further breaches.
vs. micheal moore 
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