Steam Is Going Haywire, People Can Access Others' Accounts
Clearly most people at Valve will be at home, filling their face with roast Vortigaunt, so a response to the crisis seems slow. At the time of writing, I’m still able to log into my Steam account through the app, but the website version seems to either be crashing under the weight of people observing the news, or brought down at their end in a “QUICK, PULL THE RED LEVER!” sort of way. Kotaku’s Jason Schreier, as well as having too many Es in his name, has found looking at purchase histories “will bounce around other random accounts too.”
Obviously there’s no word yet if this is a hack, some giant internal screw-up, or perhaps an elaborate ARG informing us of the imminent release of Half-Life 3. Again, according to Kotaku, Steam Guard (which fires off an email to you if someone tries to log into your account from an unrecognised computer) isn’t preventing people’s accounts from being accessed.
Edit: People in our comments are reporting it’s a caching issue, the store serving you someone else’s cached page, so if you didn’t log in, you’re fine. So glad I logged in in order to write this story. With the whole thing pulled offline, it seems people should be safe right now. I imagine they’ll insist everyone change their passwords come tomorrow.
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Source: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/12/25/steam-is-going-haywire-people-can-access-others-accounts/
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rghmodzPosted:
Shawdo29 Steam is gay anyways psn all the way
>2015 and still using the word "gay" as an insult.
Doesn't PSN have problems all the time?
ehPosted:
GTT Yeh, but that`s just standard for Steam.
You know no its actually not standard for steam
lol consoles..
OmittingCoderPosted:
I've had zero problems with steam the past week so I don't know what's going on
AE86Posted:
Hoop-SamanthakljasdkagfaskfasfdohlolohnoeszszDaniel So "Nothing ever happens to steam" hmm okay.
Haha yeah PC users give Sony/MS crap because of their service yet Steam seems to have more serious issues than PSN/XBL.
rofl? This is the only problem I can think of in recent history that has been an issue with steam (which is a free service). Yea this was a massive blunder but it was fixed quickly and there shouldn't be any issues with account security.
I'd rather Live or PSN go down for a couple days than have someone I don't know be able to log into my steam account full of sensitive info.
card details are censored by law, and you can't "log into someones account". No sensitive info apart from maybe an email adress which you can change easily was leaked. Oh, and remember when PSN was hacked some years ago (i can't recall) and thousands of passwords and credit card info's were released? Not to forget steam is a free service yet you have to pay for PSN/XBL. Haha.
And on top of that you cant purchase anything without knowing CVC/CVE or passwords to paypals accounts lmao, you guys obviously dont know anything about Steam.
HoopPosted:
-SamanthakljasdkagfaskfasfdohlolohnoeszszDaniel So "Nothing ever happens to steam" hmm okay.
Haha yeah PC users give Sony/MS crap because of their service yet Steam seems to have more serious issues than PSN/XBL.
rofl? This is the only problem I can think of in recent history that has been an issue with steam (which is a free service). Yea this was a massive blunder but it was fixed quickly and there shouldn't be any issues with account security.
I'd rather Live or PSN go down for a couple days than have someone I don't know be able to log into my steam account full of sensitive info.
card details are censored by law, and you can't "log into someones account". No sensitive info apart from maybe an email adress which you can change easily was leaked. Oh, and remember when PSN was hacked some years ago (i can't recall) and thousands of passwords and credit card info's were released? Not to forget steam is a free service yet you have to pay for PSN/XBL. Haha.
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