Opening up my steam and suddenly seeing everything in Russian nearly gave me a bloody heart attack
Steam acting weird for anyone?
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Can you access your games? Play them? Update them? Install them?
Can other people buy games in your name? Get you banned from Steam and therefor from your games?
Can other people buy games in your name? Get you banned from Steam and therefor from your games?
Barbas said:
That's a somewhat different issue to the massive security breach of people accessing each other's accounts though. A DDOS doesn't do that. Not deliberately. It is perhaps theoretically possible that the attack broke something on the server but it SEEMS to be something to do with page caching going badly wrong.
'Steam' or more specifically Valve hasn't said anything at all to my knowledge, its all been third parties so far. That 'SteamDB' account linked above is a fansite.Caramel Frappe said:
Don't know about the first four (although there were people playing games on my friends list before it went down).Vendor-Lazarus said:
As for the latter two: I'm pretty sure people CAN buy games in your name. Because some people have claimed to do exactly that before realising it wasn't their account. Don't know about banned...can you get banned through Steam store use?
(As a small edit to the above: in the NeoGaf thread that a lot of places are linking someone posted just before a Paypal payment of over two thousand dollars put onto a steam account, apparently not the owner.)
Edit: Paul Tassi over at Forbes is trying to keep this up to date. Looks like what I was saying above - a DDOS doesn't do this but its possible (even likely, based on this article) that the attack caused some kind of major problem with the servers:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/12/25/steam-is-randomly-logging-users-into-other-peoples-accounts-and-exposing-their-information/
Well I fucked up by clicking around for ages, and then logging out when I actually realised just how bad it is; but now I presume that I'd just make things even worse logging back in. But still, I guess I'd have to eventually turn off my laptop, and that would mean logging off anyway. So I'm just gonna... Leave it as it is and not touch it at all from this point. And to keep an eye on my card transactions in the meantime.
It is absolutely absurd how bad they are at communication with the public.Barbas said:
It was cute and funny as long as everything was going well but its pretty disgusting that there seems to be no official info even this long after such a massive data breach.
In all my years using Steam, I've never seen a fuckup as bad as this one. Being able to see into other people's personal information? Hooooly shit.
These past 2 years, I haven't used Steam nearly as much. Mostly because my platform of choice became the PS4. And the PC Gaming I did do was usually outside of Steam to begin with. I don't really see much of a reason to use it lately, and after purchases leading to over 200 games in my account, I have indeed used Steam a lot in years past.
But this in particular makes me never want to use Steam to make purchases again. And given my recent gaming activities, nothing would really be lost.
Valve needs to speak up on this. I'd love to see what they have to say, and the extent of the damages incurred. The fact they've gone silent for this long is already bad enough.
These past 2 years, I haven't used Steam nearly as much. Mostly because my platform of choice became the PS4. And the PC Gaming I did do was usually outside of Steam to begin with. I don't really see much of a reason to use it lately, and after purchases leading to over 200 games in my account, I have indeed used Steam a lot in years past.
But this in particular makes me never want to use Steam to make purchases again. And given my recent gaming activities, nothing would really be lost.
Valve needs to speak up on this. I'd love to see what they have to say, and the extent of the damages incurred. The fact they've gone silent for this long is already bad enough.
Well the "totally secure" Steam account myth has been completely busted, no? Gabe boasted about it years ago, now its biting Steam users in the ass... But hey, this is the world we live in, no?
I do hope that this finally opens some people's eyes to Steam and Valve in general as not being the patron saints of gaming. I don't have Valve, but I've never once trusted them completely and I their lack of communication disturbing.
I do hope that this finally opens some people's eyes to Steam and Valve in general as not being the patron saints of gaming. I don't have Valve, but I've never once trusted them completely and I their lack of communication disturbing.
This might sound like a very silly question but I'll ask anyway. I've had a Steam account for several months, but only recently did I purchase something but my card details weren't saved or anything. Am I safe, or should I still be keeping a close eye on my bank account?
I'd keep an eye anyway. Frankly with the amount of screwups I've been reading about (for example: apparently if you go to add a new card it automatically fills in your details...i.e. your name, home address and your telephone number) then I wouldn't put it past this system to be screwed up enough for the card details to be accessible somehow.New World Fool said:
It seems UNLIKELY but you never know...
To be fair for all the easy to make criticism there is to poke at the whole verification over market transactions thing I CAN understand why. Personally I own a DOTA2 Rainmaker which at present goes for in excess of ?200. >_>RiseOfTheWhiteWolf said:
Edit: This website can't handle the pound sign?
Really?
It seems like the store is back online (checked with Chrome instead of Steam itself), I dunno if it's safe to... Well, do anything on Steam yet :/
I think its because then it becomes a question of "where do you draw the line of when it starts asking for confirmation?"RiseOfTheWhiteWolf said:
A pound? Five? Ten? Fifty? How much is too much for the system to allow? Bearing in mind that for some people a hundred quid is nothing and for others as little as a fiver is a lot?
I just checked all the things I did in my original post and it seems like it's back in order. Account details link to mine and recently viewed link in a browser doesn't bring up a random user's cart/wishlist.Caramel Frappe said:
It's safe to wait for an official statement but I don't know if Valve will make one.
From the twitter account guy who was doing value's job (you rock steamdb) this seem like a simple fuck up on valves part.
Does anyone else smell a lawsuit coming? I mean they Accidentally showed people's information and then was too godamn lazy to tell anyone about this Critical screw up. I think every valve user can sue steam right know.
Does anyone else smell a lawsuit coming? I mean they Accidentally showed people's information and then was too godamn lazy to tell anyone about this Critical screw up. I think every valve user can sue steam right know.