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.

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.

Sony followed a similar trajectory last April, at first claiming its PlayStation Network was down for maintenance (and implying the trouble was internal and technical), then confessing a few days later that the service had suffered an “external intrusion.” It took Sony until the seventh day to admit hackers had compromised databases containing sensitive personal information—Valve, by contrast, got the word out more quickly, giving us a heads up by the fourth.

Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/11/11/is-valves-steam-hack-as-bad-as-sony-playstation-debacle/#ixzz1dQKXZAg4