Steam

[recdriver1023]

This morning I had a E-mail from Steam that said my account was hacked. The name they gave m for the person hat hacked it Is PAI CHLANG MAI TH. I haven`t been on steam for a long time so I locked my account. I will change my password.

Roger

 

[chris2001trainz2010]

What in the world does this have to do with Trainz?

 

[recdriver1023]

Steam sells a version of trainz

 

[chris2001trainz2010]

Regardless, this forum is for the discussion of the Trainz series, and your first statement has nothing in common with Trainz.

 

[dnevans8]

Regardless, this forum is for the discussion of the Trainz series, and your first statement has nothing in common with Trainz.

There are a lot of people on this forum that run TS12 through Steam so it is relevant as it gives them a warning that there are some dodgy people about hacking Steam accounts.

 

[martinvk]

One reason why I avoid Steam. Don't need them to decide if and when I can use Trainz. Since Trainz can be downloaded directly from N3V, never understood why a third party should be involved.

 

[dnevans8]

One reason why I avoid Steam. Don't need them to decide if and when I can use Trainz. Since Trainz can be downloaded directly from N3V, never understood why a third party should be involved.

Quite right after all N3V never stop people using Trainz, oh wait a minute is that not what happened to many users this weekend?

 

[Jayle]

One reason why I avoid Steam. Don't need them to decide if and when I can use Trainz. Since Trainz can be downloaded directly from N3V, never understood why a third party should be involved.

Steam allows people to play X game where ever, giving the users the ability to download and play on whatever pc they want (hardware reqs are the only holdup). Clouds, how fun(and dangerous if ya saw the icloud hack). Hence the very reason for the third party.

N3V only allows 10 repeated downloads after you buy, forgot to mention that as the main difference.

 

[shaneturner12]

Steam does have a two-factor authentication to guard against hacking attempts, which requires both the username/password and a special code sent to your email address in order to authenticate the first time a previously unknown system attempts to log into the Steam account.

Shane

 

[CaptEngland]

Reply to the Original poster.

Are you sure the email was legit? That email sounds fishy to me as it is very hard to have a steam account to be hacked. If it was, I would check your P.C. first with a virus checker and then use an ad-aware checker like spybot.

Why would someone hack your steam account? I've been on it for over 7 years now and not once have I had a Hack attack (touch wood). I would also post on steams customer support page asking if the email was sent by them and if it is correct. A google search should also tell you if the email is a scam email. I hope you did not click any of the emails links, by the way?

Regards.
CaptEngland.

 

[JCitron]

You might find this wee article interesting...

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2014/07/steam-account-phishers-caught-squatting/

I would contact Steam Support and have them straighten things out if not to find out if this is a legit email.