Gabe Newell from Valve has announced that the database and forums of Steam have been hacked.
According to Valve, this happened earlier this week and investigations led to evidence that the hackers had obtained access to the Steam database. This means the hackers might have acquired your credit card informations if you have registered one on Steam, Valve advises you to keep an eye on your credit card activity.
Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users,
Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6. We began investigating and found that the intrusion goes beyond the Steam forums.
We learned that intruders obtained access to a Steam database in addition to the forums. This database contained information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing addresses and encrypted credit card information. We do not have evidence that encrypted credit card numbers or personally identifying information were taken by the intruders, or that the protection on credit card numbers or passwords was cracked. We are still investigating.
We don't have evidence of credit card misuse at this time. Nonetheless you should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.
While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login. If you have used your Steam forum password on other accounts you should change those passwords as well.
We do not know of any compromised Steam accounts, so we are not planning to force a change of Steam account passwords (which are separate from forum passwords). However, it wouldn't be a bad idea to change that as well, especially if it is the same as your Steam forum account password.
We will reopen the forums as soon as we can.
I am truly sorry this happened, and I apologize for the inconvenience.
Gabe.
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Philipp "reload" Kotecki, who will be participating in the upcoming DHW 2011 Duel Tournament. He talks about his training, future goals and his DreamHack invitation. Here is a snippet:
Insan3, 
madix, 
dem0n and all the way from Australia 
Ventz. I think it's also noteworthy that the grand final for the duel tournament will be played in the brand new DreamHack AMD SAPHIRE Arena. Which will be inside the hockey arena just next to the DreamHack venue. The Quake Live Duel final will be played just before the StarCraft 2 final, so I expect all the 4 000 seats to be filled!
ZhoreZ. He is a rising star from the russian QL community and won multiple JeeSports' weekly tournaments (non-pro).
Higgs and 
pleuraXeraphim from quakeworld.nu has announced the kick-off of the quakeworld Ignition Tournamant, geared for players new to QW. Please note the following important notice from the Ignition website:
Cypher. For the next video I'd like to feature one of the fast maps. Any suggestions for games are welcome.
noctis vs 
rapha Analysis
neverGreen and 
eThaD) bring you another challenge promode tournament. It will start 21.11.2011 and it's gonna be 2v2! Each team has to have it's captain who will be responsible for team management(communication with admins, scheduling matches, etc.). Official tournament irc channel is #cpmduel. Captains can sign up their teams with a team name on challonge page ---> SIGN-UP !!!
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poni (ZOTAC Qualifier #108)
House of Quake: chumbo, rexob, stylezz, williebobc
Wiz - Wizards *8p*
SHILF - shemales *14p* 
WHORE - whoreunit *13p* 
oj! - orange juice *11p* 
ql.ee - #qlpickup.ee *15p* 
func - FuNtastiC *12p*
LKFF - LozKampozFraggingForce *9p* 
F&C - Fast and Clumsy *8p* 
