Beyond our own archive — the mentions, press, videos, and relics of fkn0wned and thec0re still scattered across the web. Every link was verified reachable.
The Steam hack, in the press
Nov 2011 — when fkn0wned made mainstream tech news.
Kotaku 2011-11
Steam Forums Apparently Hacked
The first major press report of the Nov 2011 breach, noting Steam Users' Forums were defaced with redirects promoting Fkn0wned.com. The canonical Kotaku piece on the incident.
Kotaku 2011-11
What We Know About the Steam Hack and What You Should Do
Kotaku's follow-up as the story escalated from a forum defacement to a database intrusion exposing usernames, hashed passwords and encrypted card data.
The Register 2011-11-09
Steam games forum down amid hack fears
UK tech-press coverage reporting Valve suspended the Steam forums after a defacement 'prominently promoting a site called FknOwned.com' plus spam emails to users.
NBC News 2011-11
Steam game service hacked, credit card theft investigated
Mainstream-news framing of the breach focused on the compromised Steam database and possible credit-card exposure stemming from the Fkn0wned forum hack.
The Escapist 2011-11
Hackers Hit Steam Forums
Games-outlet report on the Fkn0wned.com defacement of the Steam Users' Forums and Valve taking the boards offline during investigation.
PC Gamer 2011-11
Steam forums down after possible hacker attack
PC Gamer's contemporaneous writeup of the Steam forum outage attributed to the Fkn0wned hack.
Shacknews 2011-11
Report: Steam Users' forums hacked
Shacknews report on the forum defacement pushing Fkn0wned.com 'hacking tutorials and tools, porn, free giveaways' before Valve pulled the boards.
Talked about elsewhere
Mentions and drama on other forums of the era.
WJunction
WJunction — 'IPB skin start' thread
Era webmaster-forum drama over a plagiarized IPB skin, with on-record posts from Reneg4d3, SpaZy and others about Niggorex's skins for FkN and tC v1, and Shifty not paying. Rich primary-source name-dropping of the crew.
MPGH 2007
Fkn0wned.com — MPGH thread (2007)
An early cross-forum discussion thread about Fkn0wned.com on MultiPlayer Game Hacking.
Watch
Showcases, tutorials, and member clips that survived on YouTube.
YouTube
Fkn0wned.com - Online Community
Promotional/community showcase video for the Fkn0wned.com forum. Classic nostalgia artifact from the site's active era.
YouTube
Fkn0wned CS:S VIP Cheat
A Counter-Strike: Source VIP cheat demo tied to Fkn0wned, representative of the paid-hack showcases the forum was known for.
YouTube
[Fkn0wned.net] Social Engineering Spread
Video from the official Fkn0wnedYT channel branded with the fkn0wned.net domain, part of the site's own uploads.
YouTube
[Fkn0wned.com] How To View Saved Passwords In Chrome
A tutorial upload from the official Fkn0wnedYT channel, illustrating the forum's tutorial content style.
YouTube
fkn0wned
A member-made fkn0wned clip. Period nostalgia footage from someone in the community.
Groups & channels
Steam groups and channels still carrying the name.
YouTube
Fkn0wnedYT — official YouTube channel
The forum's own YouTube channel, source of several of the tutorial/showcase videos above.
YouTube
FknHacks — YouTube channel
Legacy Fkn0wned-affiliated hacks channel, part of the site's video footprint.
Steam
Steam Group — 'Thec0re.net - The Next Level [tC]'
The official [tC] Steam group linking to thec0re.net. A directly surviving social artifact of the thec0re side.
Steam
Steam Group — 'Fkn0wned.com (Private hack crackers)'
A Fkn0wned-branded Steam group for cracking VIP hacks, linking to fkn0wned.com. A small but genuine surviving relic.
Art
Where the GFX crew's work lives on.
DeviantArt
Fkn0wned-Graphics — the [FkN] GFX crew on DeviantArt
DeviantArt home of the Fkn0wned graphics crew — surviving logos, signatures, and banners from the GFX battles era.
Still standing
Pieces of the old web that haven't gone dark yet.
fkn0wned.net
fkn0wned.net — 'Welcome to the underground'
The fkn0wned.net domain is still registered, but it no longer runs the forum — it now points to the Wayback Machine's captures of the old site.