MeatballHLM Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Blame the stupid Steam support guy for getting fooled by the hijacker's trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrocide Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 If you think about i though, speaking for Mattie's case, it was pretty ingenious to get steam to hijack the account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Cyan Stone in Mustard Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I've been hijacked and got my stuff back in a week Am I lucky?Also with all these phishers around I guess the hijack rate is up. "When I grow up, I wanna work at Steam Support and actually get people their shit back!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lo-Rez Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 If you think about i though, speaking for Mattie's case, it was pretty ingenious to get steam to hijack the account. Takes more of a confidence trickster to pull off social engineering like that (some balls to talk to and convince them using voice, all the while sounding legitimate) --- compared to the recent phishing bots which are probably launched by some guy in a room with a bot (or maybe an army of bots) at his disposal, with just some clicks of the mouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuffRyders Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Is it confirmed then that he is hijacked by social engineering? It really sucks to loose a 18k backpack, I hope it ends up well for him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrocide Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 One thing is for sure though, if this guys BP is restored fully, thats gonna be a lot of dupes being passed around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lo-Rez Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 One thing is for sure though, if this guys BP is restored fully, thats gonna be a lot of dupes being passed around. no doubt, a friend of a friend just had his account hijacked through a phishing link (he signed in) - so there's dupes of that stuff going around too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatballHLM Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Valve should just remove the ability to add URL links on steam chat. Like what Google does in YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♠Derpeh♤ Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Valve should just remove the ability to add URL links on steam chat. Like what Google does in YouTube. If they had bothered get rid of phishing they would have done so ages ago. Simply place a warning and/or mark when it isnt a link to a official steam website (what most trading websites do already) would fix it instantly. Instead they decide to change around their steamguard when it's pretty obvious that it isnt that hard to bypass Ie. hackers can bypass it easily while the honest trader is locked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 If they had bothered get rid of phishing they would have done so ages ago. Simply place a warning and/or mark when it isnt a link to a official steam website (what most trading websites do already) would fix it instantly. Instead they decide to change around their steamguard when it's pretty obvious that it isnt that hard to bypass Ie. hackers can bypass it easily while the honest trader is locked out. Or they should warn people on the Steam Homepage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duscoda Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Has there been any new info on how this happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakgrund Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 2 weeks and still not retrieved? gg steam support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrocide Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 steam support has always been slow to respond in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakgrund Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 steam support has always been slow to respond in my experience. 2 weeks for a hijacked account is too much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woifi The Viking Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 2 weeks for a hijacked account is too much Well maybe it is more complicated than just a simple phishing link hijack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrocide Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 2 weeks for a hijacked account is too much Wasnt it almost a month for Mattie or someone high up there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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