My steam account got hacked ;.;

[Carpenoctem]

That's good news. I'm starting to see more and more accounts getting hacked purely to sell things on the market.

 

It is good news indeed.

I would honestly doubt that they'd keep an account banned if they can see that it was genuinely not the owner's responsibility.

I'd expect them to do at least some IP checks to see what happened.

 

What people often fail to realize is how big can be the "gray market" that runs behind stolen accounts. 

Imagine the potential profit of companies that just steal accounts as a job and sell stolen stuffs, and multiply it for the steam player base.

 

Since someone mentioned here Diablo and battlenet before, this is one clear example of how to get scammed:

http://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2014/04/phishers-lure-wow-players-with-an-irresistible-offer/

 

Perhaps many people here consider themselves smart and with lot of knowledge, but I bet for 100 smart people that know how to protect themselves there are 100.000 that dont have any idea.