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anyone getting their account hacked is a dumb nigger up to dumb nigger shit playing dumb nigger games
literally, steam guard, and dont touch the worst games on steam (tf2, cs, dota) and you will never ever get hacked.
Fuck off zoomer, nobody cares about your drama.
young people need to kill themselves already
steam guard or better yet mobile authentication and you're fucking golden
this is your brain on CLICK HERE FOR FREE SKINS
Consolefags win yet again.
>hack on an alt account
>keep getting messages "DID YOU LOG IN FROM CHINA"
>fuck it
>secure the account and put an authenticator on it
>guy was playing tf2 on the account for like 600 hours
>litterally no other games on it
>nearly full backpack and friendslist
almost feel bad lol.
>guy found you a qt steam admin(female) and tries to be a wingman
>call him a hacker
>keep getting friend requests when playing single player
I really just don't want to fill my friends list full of people that will likely ask to trade for my "rare items."
Does steam have a limit to the length of your password? Next time someone tries to phish me I want to tell them "yeah my password is the entire first chapter to Hamlet but in leetspeak" or something so they'll waste their time
12 characters I thinkl
I'm starting to get random messages on discord of people asking for asl then before any response they say they're a girl but their english is broken as fuck
Just a few weeks back some random guy added me on steam. We've never played together or anything. After sometime I get a message on my steam app that I'm trying to log in to my account and gave me my authenticator number. I'm suprised they even got my password correct because its pretty fucking unique.
my password is 22 characters long so no it cannot be 12
He was just idling and spamming on some server or other, and was almost definitely doing the same to 50 other accounts.
>don't play multiplayer games
>don't use discord
>no one is adding me or trying to trick me
huh, funny how that works.
Keylogger or a malicious browser extension.
Might wanna doublecheck your shit.
>tfw alone
y-yeah, living the dream
nope
Eset and Malwarebytes right?
hey its me ur brother
My oldest email has been leaked 9 times
yo wats up
>single player
>"rare items."
huh?
>mobile authentication
SMS gets fucking intercepted. Using mobile as your authenticator is up there with using email as too.
Steam cards and whatnot.
This email is like from 2004 or so
GOD I wish that were me
I just checked, my email from all the way middle school got hit 6 times.
Only 1 time huh. Not like I use my hotmail much anyway.
Looking through the list, I haven't even used half the sites these breaches allegedly came from
haha whoops
>account gets hacked after 12 years
>literally get it back within an hour
>some chink used it to play PUBG and got banned
>now have a vac ban on my account
One of the e-mails I used to store a bunch of passwords on was blocked by microshit because of "suspicious activity" and the assholes won't give it back. How do I contact an actual human being about this instead of their automated response bullshit?
you can get that shit removed
>email used to store passwords
???
Serious question: how do you guys manage to get your accounts hacked in 2019?
>pwned one time
>of course it's 2007 gpotato
Good times
Dumbass companies having constant data breaches.
That's why I personally love two step verification, get fucked Wang.
>have 250+ games on steam
>some random fucker who added me advertises me "free games" if I follow the link
Do these people ever think before they target?
The oldest email for Hotmail, my sister's email address which I also used, was leaked 10 times. No pastes thanksfully.
They don't send SMS for mobile authentication
>One of the e-mails I used to store a bunch of passwords on
This is high-grade super boomer shit right here.
Steam Guard's Mobile authentacator you faggot.
Yes, if a few people grab your phone number via a few tricks they can intercept your SMS's and as a result break in, but Steam Guard's like the Blizzard Auth tokens they hand out like candy, but it's an app for your phone, so you don't have to worry about that little D-cell battery going out and losing you out of your account forever.
how?
All I looked into said it's basically my fault
one of my friends had his account hacked by chinks who also got him banned in pubg
i think he contacted steam who told him to contact the pubg support guys
i think it led to him sending them a ticket followed by a few responses with requested information in them, and they cleared the ban from his account
Learn to follow the conversation, you turbo sperg. What fresh website did you come from that you still don't know how backlinks work?
Does Steam have any authenticator other than Steam Guard and SMS now? I usually default to hashes/stringcode so I can backup my authenticator on PC so I don't freak out if I lose my phone.
you literally get the code to use the mobile authenticator trough SMS, dumbass.
Just today a guy I knew with 10 unusuals got hijacked and tried this "I accidentally reported you for duped items" scam, why isn't valve getting on top of this?
>installing more steam spyware
it's as if steam's own bloatware isn't enough
Ban one account, another rises.
I'm legit confused about this image
i dun get it
kek
and these are the ones who say epic launcher was vulnerable
Yep.
>uh
You sound like a troglodyte if say something even remotely close to this, you mouthbreathing scum.
>you literally get the code to use the mobile authenticator trough SMS
And someone is just conveniently sitting on the Steam Guard app in your account with your mobile number on another SIM card? Yeah, no.
Someone stole the account. He was caught out by saying the two of them met on TF2. He's after OP's stash of items.
Is there anything more I can do to make my account more secure lads?
So far I have
>Mulitple e-mail addresses
>Unique passwords for all my accounts
>Password manager
>2 factor authentication
Change password after every login, memorize it using your head - don't write it anywhere. Make sure your connection is secure by having 50 private vpns. Make it so your steam is on a clean system installation with only its games nothing else.
R2I training.
Regular password rotation.
>This pops up as I'm browsing this thread
Oh fuck, I'm next aren't it?
You could do this Or you could just use Incognito Mode
If someone adds a random chink they deserve to lose their account.
2fa almost always REDUCES account security rather than increase because it's easier to break than regular passwords. Beside long generated passwords and an OFFLINE password manager on a linux non-phone device (other OSs often sneakily upload your shit to their online cloud crap without your permission, which is yet another common point of failure), there's not much else you can do but use different emails and passwords for everything.
>use the same email since 10 years
>nothing
lmao, looks like none of you fags can into security
haha cool bro, what is password?
VPNs don't help security. They're another point of failure. Effectively you choose to hand over all your connections to the host instead of your ISP, There is no extra security between 1 and >1 VPN either. Only the last endpoint knows what your request is and shuttles it through the tunnel.
Ultimately, VPNs are usually less reliable than ISPs and should be avoided, except in britbongland, sweden, china, countries of africa, and a few other countries.
Changing passwords is usually very insecure and should be avoided as much as possible.
- If you have a keylogger, you're fucked everytime a password is entered manually instead of being filled in by a program. Thus, the fewer password changes, the better.
- If you don't have a keylogger, but someone is cracking your password by hash, they'll get you eventually anyway (presumably they can always get the next hash). Conversely, if the password is saved in plaintext, any change is useless. If they are cracking your passwords by multi-login attempt, there is no difference: that method is so slow they practically rely on retrying random passwords from the whole set until something sticks. This is virtually unheard of and any service that accepts that benefits from being avoided like the plague.
- Anytime you change the password, it's another potential security vuln you're exposing yourself to: if the connection is not properly secured, the credentials for the change can be sent either plaintext, reversibly (think: not salted), etc. It also gives the hash to anyone listening even if you're not logging in, giving them a head start, and the listener might receive enough information to reverse your passwords from now on (think, a website that sends the salt in the request so you can client-side hash your password).
Remembering all passwords in your head is the safest, but clashes with the other principles for security. Better to jot it down in a notebook.
These have nothing to do with user security and everything to do with site security. E.g. sony leak, google leak, facebook leak, etc. If you don't use your email for any service, your email provider can still leak (microsoft leaks like a broken sieve).
>10 hits
well at least it's not the important one
those are just spammers, i added a few without thinking and they just send you a picture of some qr code and a chink girl. idk what the qr code is but it's probably bad news, so just don't scan it and you'll probably be fine.
I remember when one of these fuckers added me and I started asking him which dock should we use for moving in the heroin bricks. He deleted me instantly
I just go into Word and type in a bunch of random gibberish, save it and then paste it into the password field. Rinse and repeat every week or so.
>it's some random faggot adds you to ask to trade some game in your inventory that they want to horde episode
>1 breach and no pastes
bretty good for someone who gives zero shits about security
>One of the e-mails I used to store a bunch of passwords on
I haven't received a Steam friend invite in years
The very first email that I ever did has 9 hits. Most on websites and shit that I never even used. Makes sense because that email is always flooded with scam and ad spam. Thankfully the other emails that actually matter have 0 hits.
>check my gaming shit email
>0 pwns
>check my main email
>0 pwns
>check my parent's email
>6 pwns
C'mon, dad, you're not gonna win 5,000 dollars from the spinning wheel ad.
so what's he gonna do with the girl story?
If they use the project toronto system, it goes to a human when it can't understand three queries in a row. Just find a string that it doesn't understand (garbled characters and such) and repeat it 3 times. They're trying really fucking hard to not route you to a human because that's the metric the chink team is using to pretend to their bosses that their system is working.
12 breaches on my most important address, aww shieet.
Just another reminder that most people who hack into accounts are South American or Spanish of some type. Just because you're 'doing it for the luls' doesn't mean you aren't down with the spics.
>Rockstar account gets hacked, didn't notice for a year or so since I didn't give a shit about the game anymore
>it was some mexican
>he did all sorts of challenges, finished a fuckton of missions and made me 200 millions on my character
Shit's kinda weird
Any 2 factor is better than none, SMS or otherwise. Any extra step to get into an account disincentivizes someone from putting in the effort to break into yours, and as long as the majority of people are dopes who don't use MFA, that extra step can be enough. It's like bike locks - you don't need to have the best lock, you just need to have a better lock than the bikes around you.
Probably sold your account to some retard that didn't know it was stolen
wow what the fuck, i got this same message from sone kid i had on my friends list just a few days ago, feel kinda bad he lost his shit. i thought he turned to the dark side or some shit
t. kool-aid drinking technology incompetent zoomer
Yeah, some scammer in India is surely having the right equipment to do middleman attack on communication tower right across the world without knowledge of your mobile phone or location. They can be intercepted on the technical level, but no, those who are capable of having the right skills and social engineering don't care about your steam games.
>they send you a chink girl
AAAAAAHHHH WHY AM I NOT GETTING THOSE SPAMMERS
>people actually putting their emails in that website
kek
So just a password is better than a password and an MFA?
Those database breaches are from major leaks and hacks, not random phishing sites. I'm 100% certain almost everyone here has a pwned email of sorts just cause of Sony and Adobe security breaches
>its all the same to scum like you, eh?
dare i say it? fucking cringe, you watched too much anime
>friend dumb enough to have his account phished
your friend is dumb and you should dump him.
I've been thinking about getting a YubiKey, but maybe that's overkill
In general, yes. When there's a leak, you expose all your phone-MFA-protected accounts at once with no means for recovery or fixing this because you can't just get a new phone number and virtually nobody allows you to get out of MFA after it's enabled. Most password recovery systems accept the MFA fallback as a legit way to reset the password (e.g. you don't remember the password, just enter the pin you received by phone and it'll reset it). Meanwhile with emails, a cracker needs to deal with 2 hopefully separate passwords even if the site tells you which email address it sent the password to (a lot of them don't). You can also create as many extra email addresses as you want, whereas you can't get as many phone numbers as you want.
MFA by email is better than by phone but still greatly flawed because again, in a lot of instances, crack the email login + password and you can freely reset passwords, but by phone (the ONLY way in almost all modern instances) are really fucking bad for security.
this
fucking retards
I had to for a class at my uni
ur uni sucks
Highest rated IT college in the nation, had a class were on the first day we watched an entire episode of John Oliver
Do you live in lithuania or some shit
>only people on my friends list i've had this happen to are people who i added because we played once and then never played again
>this scam has been tried on me by like 5 other accounts who added me out of the blue
cool, i guess
LAND OF THE FREE, all these professors were purple hair females
I'm sorry.
>had a class were on the first day we watched an entire episode of John Oliver
Why?
Well of course it was a Research Methodology class so John Oliver is a natural choice
>check email i use for fucking everything that i don't give two shits about
>somehow nothing
cool
This, it's why I use a radically different password for my email than I do for other things.
They are gonna get hit now, thanks for putting up your own emails on the site for us hacker bois to use :^)
>it was a Research Methodology class so John Oliver is a natural choice
youtube.com
>learning IT in college instead of on your own
Well what did you expect
good shit
Im just here for a piece of paper mate, then im moving into the woods in some western town
It's contemporary and popular. That kind of thing is a natural choice for asking students to do things like.
>Can you point out the potential biases?
>What further reading on the topics would/could you do?
Op trying to sound like the MC of a drama is peak cringe
Nice fake story, here's your (You)
actually no, It was taking Oliver as fact as he was questioning Dr. Oz. I found it highly ironic she used him as a reliable source of fact finding.
Was it the net neutrality one?
Dr. Oz
But even with the phone number being leaked, there's still the actual act of getting the SMS itself through SIM swapping or signal intercepting, which goes back to the effort required point. Only 10 percent of Google users have MFA at all, and it's probably fair to say that that number only gets lower from there. In the event of a leak, that means at least 90 percent of the users leaked could be busted into with just the effort of breaking one password. Wouldn't an SMS MFA make you more secure just by that alone?
>have a couple of expensive exclusive items
>public inventory
>scammers and bots spam friend invites/trade offers literally every hour nonstop
>private inventory
>peace and tranquility, not a single invite
>using a password manager at all
Instead of trusting something that could end up being compromised just trust in yourself.
>choose a long password that is a mixture of numbers, upper/lower case and characters
>each website/application has a different password
>have more than 1 e-mail
>one for games, one for finance, for for work etc.
>write the passwords down on a piece of paper and no one else
>use a code if you want instead of writing "Main Gmail account"
>use 2FA for everything because it gives another step
>butt hurr durr what if someone breaks in and finds the paper
If someone has broken into your house you have bigger issues, if you're that worried hide the paper in a book. You do read, don't you?
The biggest saftey thing is not to use the same e-mail/password for everything. I did and I think something like Evony got hacked and they had all my accounts. some Russian twat was playing Siege for about 6 months on my account until he got banned and I got an e-mail about it.
He is generally reliable on the safe topics like that, to the limited credit I'll ever give him. Things which challenge his liberalistic (I.e. western capitalist-centric) views less so.
>finding someone's password
>finding someone's password and somehow getting the 2FA token
I wonder which is easier...
He thinks he made the scammer feel bad about it, joke's on him, scammers don't give a fuck.
I agree that there was very little wrong with the video in question, i found it ironic to use him as a bastion of Research quality, however. Also fuck watching 17 minutes of a comedy show to teach us nothing as we barely discussed the video afterwards. I payed hundreds of dollars to sit in that one lecture and she could come up with nothing better than to show us a youtube video.
>never once had this shit tried on me
Mine used to be clean, but now apparently it's been hit twice, one on a site I never fucking visited, and another on a site where I had no sensitive info or a password I use anywhere else. Guess I'm reasonably clear
>Have weak passwords on my Origin and Uplay accounts, because who gives a fuck kek
>Turn on mobile authentication, though.
>Nowadays get 10 text messages per day about someone from Russia or China trying to log in.
Superpowers comprised of beggars and thieves. I mean Western "Civilization" is a shitshow, but RU/CH are just fucking sad.
>But even with the phone number being leaked, there's still the actual act of getting the SMS itself through SIM swapping or signal intercepting, which goes back to the effort required point.
My point is that this is easier to do than to rummage through someone's single compromised account and that unlike with emails or individual, "isolated" accounts, a single compromise means ALL the services you've ever used are automatically compromised. Hardly a real cost vs effort compromise to be done here, it's always worth it.
Shit sometimes gets kinda forced on professors for a huge list of reasons — university politics is a bitch. Idk if that's the case, but it definitely sounds like what professors I've known that got told "yo you're doing this class now" like 2 hours before the class have done before.
The worst I've ever seen is a professor being told they're teaching a class 2 weeks after that class started.
You don't need to get the password if you have the 2fa token, that's the point. With the 2fa token, you can reset the password without having access to the password, an email address, or two passwords (the one from the email and the one from the account). Moreover, you can do that automatically for every site as soon as you have the number.
Most scamming a phishing is intentionally as shitty as possible because scammers maximise the amount of time they spend on total retards.
They could make more convincing attempts, and have in the past, but it's not worth it. If you reach 1000 people and get 100 replies with your convincing email, but only 1 dumbass that gives you their bank details then it's more effective to weed out the 99 that won't and get straight to the 1 that will.
fuck that's pretty smart
I miss the days when steam hackers would actually talk to you in person and not just paste chat messages at you
epic chinks stationed in fucking steam chat log threads
kys ping pong
>yeah surely I will put my email on that site to check if nobody ever put it on some fishy database
I actually had something similar happen to me. My uPlay got hacked back in 2013/2014, when I never used the account and only had it because Driver: San Fransisco demanded it. One day Dymetri Ivanovich logged into my account and I got a notice that my uPlay account had a suspicious login but I really did not give a shit. I then left it for a few years, until 2018 or so when Ubisoft started giving away a lot of games on uPlay. I then used the "I have lost my password" reset link (because ol Dymitry forgot to change the account's email) and found that he'd been diligently acquiring all of the free game releases that had occurred over the last couple years. Then I locked the account on his thieving arse.
The site is very transparent, idk what people think they're doing by virtue signalling that they're "too smart" to use a credible checking tool.
You better not do shit.
Work email
>0
Porn email
>4
Figures
what about your videogame email
Mine has leaked 24 times
>>using a password manager
>here's a list of things password managers have built in.
You basically just said that instead of using a password manager, user should write it down.
>If someone has broken into your house you have bigger issues
So don't make it worst with the potential of the intruder also taking your passwords?
>. With the 2fa token, you can reset the password without having access to the password
???
No you can't. I have literally never seen this.
Good goy
Same thing happened to me, an authenticator number popped up on my phone at work yesterday. Creeped me out so I changed my password.
I still can't believe people fall for that stupid shit like that stupid gift card scam.
5 breeches and 1 paste, made it in 2010ish. Fuck.
it's the same chink girl every time you're not missing anything
Unless you had some kind of payment method linked to the accounts in the sites that got leaked, most they could have gotten out of you is an username and a hashed password. Just make sure you're not using that same password in any site you log in using your email, and you should be fine. If you keep getting bruteforce notifications on your email, consider taking the time to make a new account
>SMS gets fucking intercepted.
fucking how
what the fuck
Not only is SMS plaintext, every relay in the network is a weakpoint. It's better to just use an authenticator and use SMS as one time thing to set that up, preferably with a dedicated SIM if you're extra paranoid.
You type like a fucking faggot
t. Xianping
>main email
>14 breach and 7 pastes
>porn email
>nothing
how?
I just don't get how SMS can get intercepted by some random chinks
do my phone needs to be hacked aswell as my computer?
That's anxious-tier, my bank uses SMS+password to log in
had this happen to me on runescape as a kid, he couldn't get into my bank account so he just used my characters high level mining and smithing to grind shit tons of rune gear, when I managed to get my account back he had like 400mil just sitting in my inventory, guess he was transferring stuff piecemeal
Look below, it lists what the breaches were.
Mine were Town of Salem, Armour games and Tumblr for my throwaway
>Check my email
>Xat apparently had a data breach in 2015, haven't used it since....like 2011, probably.
huh. Guess it's a good thing it's not my fault then.
>state on my profile if I don't know someone they're not getting added
>haven't gotten a request in years
>Decide to check my mother's, since she's a bit of a dumbass. Not super tech-illiterate, but dumb nonetheless.
>7 breached sites
Heh. Figured as much.
Security of your account depends on how the bank handles phishing attacks. There's a reason why it's effective. This is why sec minded ones tend to have a dedicated SIM for their financial stuff, separate entirely from their social and whatnot. People in the know are trying to push services away from SMS'd two-factor since if some actually wants to fuck you there, they can. Thing is, user, as long as your password is secure you've got nothing to fear. So just make sure you're not logging in on unsecured networks or computers. Stop downloading stuff from here filled with keyloggers and you'll be safe.
That said, the people that can intercept your SMS are usually state agents and really really really pissed off syndicates willing to shell out the money and the techs needed to fuck you over. I do suggest to use token authentication instead if your bank has one. You can back it up with Winauth if you don't want to fuck yourself over if you ever lose your phone.
>have a "please comment on my profile if you want to add me" thing
>still get these scam bots at least once a week
>Check Dad
>He's somehow even worse at a whopping 8
Honestly I kind of thought he was better at this.
Not entirely their fault, user. Just look at the database breaches on the site itself.
>Origin and Adobe
Not a surprise. BF3 wasn't even worth it, and Adobe was forced at Uni. Cunts.
>dude I hate free stuff
Lmao
thanks for your input user
>Stop downloading stuff from here filled with keyloggers and you'll be safe.
this will be the hardest part
Yeah, that dolphin porn collection only updates once a year.
Didn't even know I had an account on that site, lol
>Only once
>From Town Of Salem of all things
That's why I got weird log ins a couple of months ago, good thing I got my shit on lock down.
>account from 2006
>nothing
Noice
>got caught in this too
>mfw I had no credit card info linked and I changed my ISP since then
I have a throwaway account just for retarded shit like this.
???
fucking Adobe
I have all of my passwords on a notepad file on my desktop.
>he didn't write a password manager for himself
Plebian
You need to at least use 7 proxies. Seriously though get a VPN.
Retard of the year
Fucking based dymitry helping you out. I wonder what swear words he uttered once he realized he was locked out.
I don't get it why is everyone freaking out about having lots of breaches? It's not your fault that places like Adobe had their user details leaked, and the only thing hackers got was your login name, which anyone can get, and a password which doesn't matter because you use a different password on every site.
You guys do use a different password on every site, right?
What the fuck does jews have to do with this. Is there some kind of /pol/ tier conspiracy that jews are pushing 2fa? Do you even know what goy mean or are you just repeating buzzwords you've heard elsewhere?
Me too but only my porn passwords
Some guy on Yea Forums gave me his steam account some months ago and I put some of those free games from giveaways on it to collect cards on, then last month I got an email from that free account saying someone locked it down. I think he used me to get free games on them, but I collected most of the card drops anyway to send them to my main account so it doesn't really matter to me. I hope he likes his free games.
According to my crazy old neighbor the chinks already have drones that look EXACTLY like common houseflies and the drones have full 4k cameras and microphones built in so buddy YOU ARE FUCKED
Fun observation: Whenever I get a normie to try this they almost aways have 0 breaches, at most 1 or 2. It's always the more tech savy people that get on this.
holy shit you were on xat too?
remember that furry chat?
Most leaks have full name, date of birth and IP address (which reveals your ISP and location). Some have your full address. Combined with knowing your email, that's often enough to recover an account maliciously.
As expected, 0.
>Most leaks have data you didn't even give to that compromised site
I see
>giving same name on sites
>giving same date of birth
>using same ip adress to log in
gonna start doing this myself, thanks
Well shit...
>2019
>not having 2FA on everything that carries personal info
Probably give a phish site to "add" the admin to talk to them.
based
I have all of my passwords physically written down on a sheet of paper I have taped up next to my computer on my wall
Good luck trying to hack me, retards
what if paper gets dmgd
I can't think of one site that had that much information lost in a breach. The most damaging I can think of was people losing the last four digits of their credit card, which is a bitch to fix since you'd need to get a new card.
The point of breaches isn't that they get your password from your computer, it's that they get your password from websites you've logged into that have poor encryption/security. You could have all your passwords only in your head and still get hacked.
I fell for this because all he needed was my email. It's legit something ANY customer support would ask for, so I suspected nothing, and the person whose account got hacked and fake-reported me is ACTUALLY fucking stupid enough to accidentally report me. Like, they're just fucking stupid. I blocked em because of this.
I got my account back since my bro's PC is just across the house, then activated 2FA. I actually took a day off from work to change all my passwords and update account details and activate 2FA on fucking everything.
>played League from S1 to S5
>quit
>get a random email on my then defunct mailbox that someone changed my account's password
>didnt give a shit
>fast forward to 2018
>get an itch to play the game, realize it was hacked ages ago
>Get Riot support on the case, they return my account after I confirm a bunch of purchases
>it was moved to Russia and every champion has been unlocked as well as a gorillion skins
downside is that the faggot tanked my ELO from plat to bronze IV, and I'm only now bothering to play ranked to get out of the shithole thats EUNE Silver Div
>get a random add
>ask him what he wants
>starts roleplaying as Mario
>steam admin needs your email
holy shit are u braindead
>It's legit something ANY customer support would ask for
It is not
This.
At my previous workplace our client had an astronomical amount of compromised account cases to the point I had to work 12-13 shifts on a week to sort out retard account holders ranging from finance support team members to regional CEOs, who clicked on a retarded as fuck phishing URL sent by a compromised account holder within the company
Worst part is the spam was then forwarded to other business partners whose accounts got hacked too, resulting in lawsuits. All because the average normie, who have PhDs, MsCs and whatnot can't fucking tell what link is secure and what's an obvious phishing email.
ps Im not a pahjeet, Im in Eastern Europe and the client's Swiss.
>have rare glitched TF2 item
>keep getting added randomly by faggots trying to get it
>haven't even played TF2 for 2+ years
my password is a seven-letter correctly spelt word and two numbers after it.
and it hasn't been pwned.
It's funny looking at what some sites will and won't save. Rest in peace Manga Trader. You were the best of us =[
Being "pwned" doesn't have anything to do with anyone guessing your password. It means that a site you put your email on during registration has had its database leaked
Jesus are you the Uplink test server or what.
>mfw I use LastPass which makes the /g/aywads screech
Every customer support I've ever been in contact with, for every thing I have ever needed their help with, has asked for my email. Not even for gaming, but for actually important infrastructural shit and feeding most of the central texas area. This worries me.
>he got hacked on an online message board
>he got hacked
>online message boards for trannies and hipsters
>wombat is hungry
anyone even gives a fuck?
I do this but I've made sure to use yellow highlighter around some inconsequential decoy bits of paper taped to my desk. This idiot has been screaming at his canadian boyfriend over his earphone for like 15 minutes. Something about scusi adapters.
>>steam admin needs your email
Even when companies have your email, you have to provide it to them so they can ensure you're not a rando trying to steal someone's account via email. Yes, this is normal. Banks, food processors/manufacturers, stores, and all such do this. It's normal. I worked with them all day every day for close to 2 years.
user, look a little harder at the site. Honestly go look.
Can't talk about Texas, but at least in my country we have a proper citizen ID registration system and that's the number they'll ask me for. Think about the particular situation, steam support knows the account they're contacting, its name, and thus the email it's linked to. Why would they ask for something they already know?
I actually already posted the reason: companies ask so they can ensure you are who you claim to be and are not just phishing customer support for account details. I worked with thousands of companies and they all do this. Steam not doing this came as a surprise to me. Only needing my email to get in, using a VERY normal procedure, worries me - literally every company that actually matters, so not anything gaming related, but the guys who give us food, power, water, etc, have this easy af vulnerability.
>Quickstarter fucked up
Well fuck them too
RIP
I still get scammers that talk to me. I like wasting their time a lot by pretending to not know how to trade and having to walk me through it. My favorite was this obviously south american guy that tried to get a friend that he said was a valve trade representative that needed to have my unusual hat traded to him to "validate I'd numbers showing it being a fresh unbox from 2010"
It was great watching their performance crack while I looked at a doujun on another tab
I use the same password on a lot of sites, but only shit that doesn't matter. I have long fancy unique passwords for email, banking, etc
>search my gaming email
>1 breached site found
>Wildstar
I forgot that was a thing.
who was in the wrong here?
>actually typing your password there
That is indeed embarrasing
>hey its me ur bröther
Every time
Good save user. Good save.
how did he get access to your account through only your email? did he already have your password?
>adobe
>linkedin
>dropbox
All the sites my school required me to use.
I'm mostly disgusted that it's not
>XxsnoopyxX
Metal gear would be turning in his grave right now.
That's what is fucking weird. I have a particularly strong password, and haven't typed it in a while - so no keylogger would have gotten it. I haven't downloaded anything that would have logged it to begin with had I typed it. I don't store in on a TXT file or anything like that, and I don't store it on an email like I've seen some others do. I keep it written on a journal I keep hidden in a safe locked inside a bigger safe hidden in my drywall... so I don't know how the fuck he did it.
I have a theory that he found a vulnerability on Steam Support's website, as I tried getting my account back by claiming to have lost my account. Both options needed one lost detail: I think he managed to yeet my account through Steam support's own website. Regardless, he still had my password, and obviously my account name. If there is some nigger up in the attic, I'll just fire a few shots up and wait the for "thump" sound, but then I'd need to know how he knew my combos to the safes... they each have a nine-digit combo so guessing it is out of the question.
I should add: I have a VERY long password on my email, too. I don't know how he had that password, either.
it that the one where site manager sold user data for like 300 bucks?
welp
this a burner email?
Same, I don't remember making one
>being a paypig
such are the wages of cuckoldry
>one breach
>it's fucking club penguin
>club penguin
I didn't need to be reminded
>registered in 2016
dodged a bullet there
Club Penguin was a fun pit of autism, I'm not ashamed
how does this scam work anyway?
I know user, I mean being reminded of it being gone forever
There's actually a 'rewritten' version being hosted afaik, with the membership options now made free
Not sure if it's still up or not though
It's just not the same
what is it?
bet it's a painted cow mangler
>Using unique generated password for all accounts
And nothing of value was lost.
computer illiterate here, what's the problem with this? it's not like you're sending that data over your network, how would anyone be able to find it unless they have access to your computer itself?
>my first email ever on hotmail
>almost 30
>my main email
>4
>my side email for shady porn sites and other seedy content
>0
okay
never post in the main steam discussions either (game specific ones are okay)
i spent six years on steam keeping to myself and then joined in with the rest of everyone when they did that shitty grand prix corgi bullshit summer sale thing
since then until i deleted all of my posts, i got nothing but random friends requests from people trying to scam or phish me
fucking state of steam lol
i had a buddy who kept all his passwords on his pc and someone next door did some fuckery and got access to all his files via wifi or some shit
i'm a computer retard but from what i understand he didn't secure his pc and the guy next door turned it into like a group thing, where they could connect and look at each others files
he just browsed through all his shit and found what he needed
Because if someone does find access to that file it's completely unencrypted and right there for the taking. It's probably easier than you think to gain access to someone's computer like that over wifi and you're basically handing them your passwords personally if they do.
Imagine keeping a little piece of paper with your credit card's pin code neatly folded right next to it in your wallet, then losing said wallet
Eset deleted my utorrent 2.2.1 version. Kinda should have saw that coming.
+1
>password is "password"
you deserve everything you get if youre that fucking retarded
>using utorrent
use qbittorrent reeeeeeee
I just installed now actually. I just wanna say, it seems pretty reliable but its ugly as fuck.
>Otacon didnt put tape over his webcam
He only had himself to blame!
>my steam password was the minimum level of security I could get away with for 10 years; didn't even have 2step verification
>recently update my pass to something more secure; set up Steam Guard
>one month later and I get an authentication notification
steam chat uses p2p
What's this from?
A few weeks back I got a notification on my phone for a new login on my account along with the Guard auth string to finish it. Didn't pay it much mind since I was on my PC at the time and my phone has a weird tendency to not update notifications until I turn it on from sleep.
Today it happened again while I was out and about on the street and this time it did spook me big time. Changed my password for the first long unique thing I could think of in a goddamn jiffy. Took it a good 8-9 years for my account to finally get hack attempts.
>Fuck off zoomer,
drama intensifies
At least 3 friends have been doing that. Did something happened last week? Should I have to worry my fap sessions getting streamed at unsecuredwebcamsdotcom?
Hunter2
My main email was leaked only 3 times, once for town of salem and the rest are just old school stuff I forgot existed.
Porn emails are both clean.
it's been going for a while
Tl;dr people think they are important enough to be spied on.