Steam seems to be having trouble and it appears other peoples account info is appearing in other peoples accounts, this (according to some) has included payment info).
Ive noticed that people are showing up as friends (in this friends wants/owns this games) who i dont have as friends, Ive not tried to buy anything I suggest people dont buy any games until that is fixed.
great, when I tried to access my account to remove my payment option I have been shown some dudes account detail, and someone is gonna see mine valve fucked up big way.
I hope they let us change our account names after this mess
It's a cache issue. If you didn't visit that page, no one would be able to see your details.
They may be related, this however isnt that the servers went down earlier, its that your steam login is potentially compromised either by a bug or malicious change. Accounts are showing different accounts info, and payment information for other people are showing up when trying to buy games.
For the moment id suggest people dont guy anything from steam.
Shitsgonemadyo
Taking down steam? Awe hell nah, we need the GLB up in here.
GABEN LASER BEAM!
That was a weird few days watching it unfold.
There were some problems with people logging into their steam accounts today and possibly seeing other people's information. DO NOT GO LOG INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. Total Biscuit put out a video summarizing, I advise every Steam user should watch it and keep an eye on your bank accounts, just in case something does compromise you...
They shutdown their servers for awhile but now they're back up. It's probably a caching problem but we wont know for sure until we hear an official report from Valve. Stay safe my friends, protect yourselves.
cant play fallout vegas now =/
It looks like everything should be back to normal.
Can someone confirm that everything is back to normal, secure and all that?
my account details display properly I dont get random people's account info
Valve had a serious security fuck up. And it seems they can't even be bothered to apologize properly. Bah.
Apparently this is the only current statement
"Steam is back up and running without any known issues," a Valve
spokesperson told GameSpot. "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."
Keep in mind it is the holidays, in saying that its very likely they will not make any definitive and lengthy statement untill the right people have looked at the problem in detail, which is the correct thing to do. However, telling us that would also be the correct thing to do, which they haven't.. except though some un-sourced quote from a non valve website.
Been following on this...definitely in to hear if Valve released anything more substantial after the New Year...
"caching issue" ... ?
Not an excuse when you're a multi billion company leaking customers PII all over the place. Not at all okay.