They were hacked 4 days ago and they just announced it.

Still, versus something like say sony where it took more then an entire week, and taking more then that to even get a clear answer to what was potentially hacked and things like "were the passwords encrypted."  When they damn well know what is in their own servers.

Really that'll be the test though.  Whether after this Steam holds up pretty well, or if it ends up getting repeatidly hacked... like well, Sony again is a good example.  Who were most recently hacked last month again.

Nah, everything still runs and works on Steam, because steam apparently wasn't as stupid to put everything on one server set.

so what does the server have to do with anything? does that mean that only a quater of steam was hacked? if so, then why didn't they say a "part" of steam was hacked instead of implying that the whole thing did?

Damn, my card was there this time.

They never said the whole thing was. They said the forum was hacked and that the hackers through the forum accessed a Steam database that housed all the information mentioned. This was not the whole of Steam it was a database within Steam. Though you have to wonder if they could access this database what else could they have done?

Actually none of steam was hacked... and they specifically DID say this.  In the statement... which you actually read right?  One Database was hacked that steam accesses.  This is contrasted by the Sony example that was so badly hacked that they literally had to shut the entire thing down because the whole system was so badly compromised.

It looks like Steam and forum both were hacked.
However, all information that should be encrypted were encrypted.
importantcustomerinfo.txt file was not found.

/change password

nope, i just skimmed it and mainly went by the title :P <-- i guess i wont be doing this again :)

so that explains it then

I was wondering if the whole steam database would get shutdown the way sony did but i guess not

Sony took four days to say they were hacked and were investigating what the results were.

Valve took four days to say they were hacked and were investigating what the results were.

In both cases security were the same: Text userinfo, hashed passwords, encrypted CC info.

The difference is that Valve is handling their PR far better (and probably learned quite a bit of how not to do it from Sony).

MS on the other hand is just now coming vaguely clear on the fact that they were probably a victim (or rather, their customers were) in the same attack that was attempted on PSN last month.