Everything was lost in the guy's backpack, although eventually he will get it all back either through returned items or new duped ones from Valve.
"I forgot how much I put into it. Many thousands of dollars, but probably less than $10,000 by a bit.
The collection has been estimated to be $25,000-$30,000"
The hacker used the social engineering trick of getting steam support to give him the account.
Somehow he got some of this guy's personal information without touching the guy's email accounts or his PC's as far as he can see and he had some pretty secure stuff going on like running process ID checkers daily and the 2-step gmail authentication.
Mattie feels it maybe something to do with the Steam database leak and i'm inclined to agree. If its possible to recover your account using just Paypal details for example then thats all the hacker needed from the leak list.
Shows just how determined these people can be, when there's a big prize at the end of the tunnel, or they feel its a personal challenge or rite of passage.
On a lighter note:
Ausrufepunkt - 2 points - 14 hours ago
Without people like this your internets wouldn't be that good, keep that in mind.
He does have a point
Those Russians get taught early about computer programming and although it provides to the world, it also takes away. "In high school/education, they place a lot of emphasis on teaching computer programming, which many teens use for computer hacking. Russia is home to many skilled programmers, as well as notorious hackers. According to some statistics, over 70% of current computer viruses can be traced back to Russia, with the remainder being Chinese/European/American."
