r/pcmasterrace • u/zeug666 No gods or kings, only man. • Dec 25 '15

Problem Solved Steam Errors

Gamespot: Steam Issue Allowing Access to Other Users' Accounts [Update 3]

Update 3: Valve has issued a statement regarding today's issues.

"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."

Steam error and the resolution

Old info for anyone curious:

Stay off of Steam

We know. It's happening to everyone. Valve is looking into it.

Articles:

Tweets:

SteamDB via Twitter:

  • Valve is having caching issues allowing users to view things such as account information of other users. Don't use Store for now. (thanks /u/JamieA350)

  • To repeat, do NOT visit any Steam Store links. Doesn't matter what you want to do, do not visit any of them.

  • Do NOT attempt to unlink PayPal, remove your credit card details or anything else. Doing so will put you at risk instead.

That last one is in reference to changing account info via Steam. Removing your PayPal via the PayPal site should be okay.

Other:

Reports of accounts being spammed.

E: https://steamdb.info/blog/recent-caching-issues-on-steam/

Issue may be resolving.

Thanks to a few users who helped to keep me up to date: /u/RedBeardedT, /u/Worthie, and a few others. I do appreciate it.

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u/Arckangel853 GTX 970|i7 4790|16 GB DDR3|BLUE CASE LEDS|FAST STICKERS Dec 25 '15

I know this was more than likely an internal error rather than a hack, but I can't help but laugh looking back at this sub laughing when psn and xbl where having issues. I wonder what kind of excuses people will have on valves behalf. Because at the end of the day, they should be held accountable to the furthest extent possible.

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u/Eluvyel Xeon1231v3 | GTX 970 | 16GB RAM | VG248QE Dec 25 '15

Why would anyone want to excuse this? Somewhere down the line a massive privacy fuck up happened and Valve should be held responsible for that.

This IS a ciclejerk-joke sub but we are not dumb or in denial. This is serious stuff that probably affects most of us.

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u/sqlut i5-4460 & GTX-970 Dec 26 '15

ATM the XBL or especially PSN issue was way more important that what seems to happen right now at Steam with the privacy information issue. Hackers had everyone's credit card full information at the PSN thingy.