floffypus Posted December 25, 2015 Content Count: 5063 Joined: 02/25/09 Status: Offline Share Posted December 25, 2015 (edited) Havent gotten any email nor sms from steam so im guessing its all good? And as i cant access my inventory the servers must be down. When it comes to payment info, names, phone numbers that isnt any issue if you dont have the payment info saved right? Edited December 25, 2015 by floffypus Link to comment
SpikedRocker Posted December 25, 2015 Content Count: 6242 Joined: 04/13/08 Status: Offline Share Posted December 25, 2015 Steam disabled their login procedures to fix issues, the login servers are back up and people are reporting things looks like its back to normal. More information on this, it seems a cache/session issue was to blame here where people were sharing each others sessions and/or cache info. This information is used for when you make a purchase that it make sure it goes through and usually is deleted within 10 minutes. It appears this may have not been the case. If you have Steam Guard enabled (which if you don't you are an idiot), you really had nothing to worry about. All credit card information (full numbers and details) are encrypted by federal law and were not accessed. It also doesn't appear and password hashes were accessed. I am calling this a glitch with the store. STEAM WAS NOT HACKED. Someone probably updated a bit of coding that had an unwanted effect where you could see things that are normally hidden. 2 Link to comment
Pan32 Posted December 25, 2015 Content Count: 1747 Joined: 03/17/12 Status: Offline Share Posted December 25, 2015 When it comes to payment info, names, phone numbers that isnt any issue if you dont have the payment info saved right? I believe it is correct, it will not save it. On other news, according to SteamDB, seems that the storm has passed, if you're still getting errors veryifing login information, restart your steam client. If you're interested on what might've been the reason for all this issues, xPaw made a pretty good post explaining here. While caching is safe, refrain from making any money transactions for now, until valve releases an actual statement. 2 Link to comment
Wesker Posted December 26, 2015 Content Count: 1534 Joined: 07/27/09 Status: Offline Share Posted December 26, 2015 The day I decide to buy everyone games on Steam 1 Link to comment
SpikedRocker Posted December 26, 2015 Content Count: 6242 Joined: 04/13/08 Status: Offline Share Posted December 26, 2015 Here is an excerpt from an e-mail sent to some retail outlets regarding the issue: "Steam is back up and running without any known issue. As a result of a configuration change earlier today, a caching issue allowed some users to randomly see pages generated for other users for a period of less than an hour. This issue has since been resolved. We believe no unauthorized actions were allowed on accounts beyond the viewing of cached page information and no additional action is required by users." For more information: http://www.pcgamer.com/warning-steam-is-revealing-private-account-information/ Link to comment
Pan32 Posted December 30, 2015 Content Count: 1747 Joined: 03/17/12 Status: Offline Share Posted December 30, 2015 Steam has finally made a extended statement about this christmas cache issue: http://store.steampowered.com/news/19852/ 2 Link to comment
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