Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Lusche on October 24, 2017, 08:42:35 AM
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...because meanwhile, my Steam account was hijacked, and I could watch it live.
First Email from Steam "... Here is the code you need to change your Steam login credentials: (...) If you are not trying to change your Steam login credentials, please ignore this
email. It is possible that another user entered their login information
incorrectly. "
Raised me an eyebrow.
Second Email from Steam, a few seconds later: "Dear drkalv, Your Steam account password has been successfully changed". Yes, you got my attention now :uhoh
And then, just a few seconds later, I get another email from Steam, this time in Russian (sending me another Steam Guard Code asking me to verify that the computer with that Ukrainian IP is allowed to make changes to my Steam account)
Of course, at this time I'm already trying to stop it, but I can't log in anymore and I can't reset the password, because the villain had already changed the email information so that the new password request went to his own address. (This info was also sent to me in a final Russian email) :uhoh
At this point, it took me an additional 20 minutes to grab my account back from that little &$%§/ and to make the necessary changes to security.
I think my main mistake (yes, Skuzzy, apart from using Steam in the first place :neener:) was not using the two factor authentication Steam Guard offers. And most probably a password too weak.
In the end, no harm was done to my account, but as I said: For a short time it was an exciting evening ;)
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Darn, I might have had a chance of shooting down that Ukrainian hacker. :D
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I doubt he did that to play AH... :noid
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if it was an Ukrainian IP that hardly makes them Russian. Come now they get the BLAME for EVERYTHING!! :old:
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if it was an Ukrainian IP that hardly makes them Russian.
Whih I did not say. I mentioned the mails were written in Russian. :old:
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if it was an Ukrainian IP that hardly makes them Russian. Come now they get the BLAME for EVERYTHING!! :old:
They should.
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Was it that fat Elton john bloke from North Korea?
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yes it was