Your Credit Card Number Leak in Online Chatting?

Another interesting real life story that happens in a Internet Relay Chat (IRC) now a days.  A very random string that displaying on the online chat box is actually the Credit Card start code and saying that you have just swipe your card!  Click on the image to enlarge and read the conversations between them.

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Yes, and one of my friend just get scam from a porn site by approve the porn site with his credit card credentials.  End up, within 1 month his credit card has been swipe for more than RM2,000.00 without any notifications from the bank and the porn site owner.

Do you have the same experience before? Share with us and let's try to minimize the online scam together! Happy Tuesday ( ;

Steam says credit card data taken

Valve has now confirmed that the hack of its Steam forums reported last week may have included the theft of credit card numbers.

The company has emailed users saying that the intruders that defaced its forums also accessed a database which included “information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing information and encrypted credit card information.”

Since the card data was encrypted, it may not be usable to the attackers, operating under the handle fkn0wned. However, according to the Washington Post and others, the e-mail from founder Gabe Newell advised customers to watch their credit card statements for evidence of misuse.

It’s been a bad 2011 for online game servers, with the now-infamous Sony PlayStation Network hack setting gamers a-jitter and costing the company both dollars and reputation.

Valve has sought to reassure users that it wasn’t slack with their personal information. A password reset has been applied to all forum users, and the company suggests that any gamers whose Steam password was the same as their forum password should reset that as well. ®

source: The Register

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