Recently Steam found out that during last attack hackers obtained a copy of backup file with information about Steam transactions between 2004 and 2008. This backup file contained user names, email addresses, encrypted billing addresses and encrypted credit card information.

Probably credits cards from 2004-2006 are already inactive but many those from 2007-2008 may be still active. Hopefully hackers won't break encryption.

Source:
http://store.steampowered.com/news/7323/?snr=1_550_552&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

One good thing about not having a credit card is not being bothered by news like this.

Another: is having never purchased anything from Steam - Works great for Demos and free stuff however or the occasional Disk based Purchase if it requires Steam Registration.

I've used my card on steam but only in the last 3 months to give my brother christmas/birthday gifts. Hopefully I'm still okay at the moment.

The question is.... why the hell they are storing that data??? are they obligated to do that by law or they use that data for own purposes.

it doesn't affect me cause my oldest card is from 09 but still that's fucking wrong.

Yeah, I wonder about it too. I thought that I'm safe because I always ask them to not store informations about my credit card. But it's seems that they still store those informations anyway.

I been using my card quite regularly on steam. But only since 2009 so I hope im safe. Bad news :/

It would take someone several thousand years to decrypt the credit card info. Your cards are safe.

I generally don't have much money on my visa electron account, so at worst I might loose a few euros. If I want to buy something, I transfer the money from my main account.

Besides, I got my card after the documentation ends. It's still a pain in the neck because it's obvious you can't trust these guys with your info. Any info for that matter.

Our grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grandchildren will curse this day.

A lot of people might get phishing mails and other inconveniances because some email leaked. Not a big problem, for most people, but for some...

Same in my case.

Oh, and don't rush to the tinfoil hat factory, because this happened a while ago. Not breaking news, if someone doesn't know.

*checks expiry date*

Phew!

Yeah, attack happened a while ago, but today they found out what actually hackers obtained and they released this statement today.