Steam's database, which contains users' personal and encrypted credit card information, has been hacked.

UPDATED  6pm:  NZ Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff, police warn New Zealand customers to take steps to protect themselves.

You know the hackers are good when they break into a technology site as was the case when Techcrunch got slammed by cyber criminals.

On Monday, at about 10:30pm, the main site of Techcrunch was hacked and redirected. The site was briefly back up at 11:30pm but then went down again. Techcrunch said on its site that it regained control of the site at around 2am.