Important! Read ASAP all 1st and BAR members

[Mamora BAR]

Theres been a recent influx of peoples accounts being hacked and Phan became one of them today. If you recieve messages from ANYONE that consist of the following

SSgt. D. Phan [1st MRB]: http://steamcommunity_com_viewprofile27460268470159.9hz.com/

OMG OMG WTF? HAHAHAHA?

DO NOT.....DO NOT click the link no matter who sends it to you. IT will ask you to put in your info of your account which will result in your account being hacked DO NOT PUT IN YOUR INFO. Evolution just fell prey to it and im sure others will probably too. Warn whomever you can.

For those of you who did put in your info this link will help you reclaim your account. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=197

Edited June 20, 2010 by Mamora

[blue turtle ßÄЯ]

I was on my way to post about it to...

[Sørensen]

yeah, just got the same message from him 15 minutes ago...

[Zahl 1st MRB]

hey, so in order to get hacked i need to type on my account name and password? Or do i get hacked just by pressing the link??

DONT CLICK THE LINK!

[Mamora BAR]

If you put in your info after youve pressed the link your fucked. If you just clicked the link and thats it then you should be fine. If your worried then change your PW ASAP

[Tolomeo]

I just clicked the link, then closed immediately once I realized my mistake. I changed my password anyways.

[evo-lution ßÄЯ]

Hey guys my account was also hacked so DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING I SEND YOU TIL OTHERWISE STATED

Dumb old me was not paying attention

[Brewer]

IT WAS THE CANADIANS!!!!!

[Guest Phan 1st MRB]

K good news the hacker didn't change me pw or anything so i just re-logged on my account and change the pw so I should be good but yeah just ignore anything I sent ya that seems weird.

[evo-lution ßÄЯ]

alright ignore that last message my account has been reset and my system is back up.... last time i trust phan with anything lol just messing

[GMoney BAR]

If you click the link itself it is not the hack. I had this happen to me once I think by Ishikawa awhile back. putting info in is the hack.

[Zahl 1st MRB]

If i ever send you porn.... click it..

[evo-lution ßÄЯ]

Zahl for you anything..... as long as your not the one in it...

[Ritchey 1st MRB]

ya, just about to post this.

This is a phishing scam.

The site is an attempt to be a duplicate of the steam website and fool you into entering in your information, which wont log you in, but it will send your information to the originator of the website. just clicking on the link should keep you safe, its just when you submit your info that it can be malicious.

if you look at the website url , it says steampowered_viewprofiles_com, then it goes through a string of characters before it actually gets to .bz.com

easy way to spot this type of crap is to check the url before you ever enter in information.

also if your afraid of some malicious websites that may be able to hack you without you having to click anything, you can always turn off your javascript in your browser which will keep most things off you.

[Janke 1st MRB]

There was once a time I was about to fall prey to this, however I didn't trust the link as it didn't have the Valve(US) secure connection thing in my browser URL box in Firefox, so I went to Steam's main site and logged in there, then pasted this link into my browser URL box, figuring I should be able to see it, and when it asked me again to log in I didn't trust it.

[Wells 1st MRB]

If i ever send you porn.... click it..

I woke up this morning and you, Zahl, were not there wtf

[Stutler]

Sorry i borrowed him!

[Cayen]

IT WAS THE CANADIANS!!!!!

that was just immature and not funny man

[Teachey]

This has happened to me before, way before I joined the unit, you can get your account back from it but it takes a little while and the people who try to get u to click on the link try to sell your account for money so DO NOT CLICK THE LINK NO MATTER WHAT! Hope the people who got hacked by it get their accounts back.

[Ritchey 1st MRB]

This is a nice phishing explanation. Its not exactly what were dealing with here, but its with the same concepts. Sub out emails, sub in steam message

Edited June 20, 2010 by Ritchey 1st MRB

[Collins]

i got that from morton seven hours ago, but i didnt touch it coz he wasnt on vent to tell me t look at it and he vanished offline straight away so i knew it wasnt really him

[Bennett]

meh just clicked the link see what it looked like...pretty fail looking

[Morton]

apparently i got me as well. I was out of town this weekend so limited internet, but it is fixed.

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

I'll repeat what I posted in the other topic about this:

Everyone should verify their personal email with steam through the settings. It sends an email whenever something changes with your account. (Password/email/etc.)

Even if you know you are too smart to be hacked, I suggest doing this just in case.