{"id":68744,"date":"2014-09-15T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68744"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T12:02:12","slug":"steam-accounts-hacked-through-twitch-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/68744-steam-accounts-hacked-through-twitch-links","title":{"rendered":"Steam accounts hacked through Twitch links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steam users out there take note: there have been reports of accounts being hacked and money taken out of gamers’ Steam wallets after following links in Twitch’s chat section.<\/p>\n

According to a security notice posted by Twitch, unsuspecting gamers have been clicking on a\u00a0“csgoprize” link in the chat section which promises an entry into a weekly raffle to win\u00a0Counter-Strike: Global Offensive items.<\/p>\n

The link, once clicked, leads to a Java programme which asks gamers to enter their name and email address. If the warning lights were not flashing and the unsuspecting victim continued, a programme would then be installed on their PC which would gain access the present Steam account.<\/p>\n

Twitch said it is working to block the link, and if gamers are concerned of future attacks, they should block the “hyperlink” function in the chat menu (under Channel & Video settings).<\/p>\n

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Any gamers had their Steam account hacked? Tell us about it in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n

Source: Gamespot<\/a><\/h6>\n

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Beware the links you see in Twitch – malware lurks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":54126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6532,21,6718,1891,12948,85,9597],"class_list":["post-68744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-hackers","tag-headline","tag-malware","tag-phishing","tag-spyware","tag-steam","tag-twitch-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68752,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68744\/revisions\/68752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}