Steam Is Going Haywire, People Can Access Others' Accounts

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There we were, feeling smug in our PC slippers that Sony were having trouble authenticating new PlayStation accounts this Christmas Day, and Steam goes nutso-crazy. And in a really serious way. As Kotaku reports on this merry eve, people are logging into Steam to discover they have access to someone else’s account. Full access, letting them see email addresses, personal details, and most of all, see Steam Wallet money.


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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Joyful-Posted:

Steam, had a huge problem, but recently there fixing all there issues, hopefully they don't lose a lot of users, because Steam is pretty awesome.....

ProPosted:

This is why I went to xbox, steam was having a lot of problems when i was using it!

OGPosted:

Here i was thinking about joining.

Good thing i found out about this

vLunaPosted:

Glad I'm console right now..

XboxPosted:

This is not good at all.

Kinda glad I don't use steam right now.

BossHaugPosted:

I tried adding money to steam right as this happened and it scared the crap out of me, thought I was in the process of my account(s) getting hacked.

DeluxeHazardPosted:

I heard about this while browsing imgur a few days ago. I am very surprised to hear about this happening, especially since it is happening to Steam.

MickersPosted:

This is defo not good news hahaha.

GR33NV3N0MPosted:

Hoop
GR33NV3N0M I have to laugh at all these PC master race comments, while yes, the PC does have superior facilities, and hardware / software to work from there are also draw backs.

I currently have a decent gaming rig, recently built and i spent abot £1400 building it.

But i still tend to spend a lot of time with my consoles, due to the fact that i can play them with a lot of friends that dont have the means to spend that much on a pc, i can do it comfy from the sofa.

On top of that, realistically, a pc does need semi regular updates in terms of hardware every few years, in order to stay on top of its game.

I had an xbox 360 for what 8 years ? with no upgrades needed and it still played new games, never needing to update any of its hardware.

No matter where you go you will have those people that feel the need to post their childish comments about how "superior" their platform is but its just that childish behaviour where they feel some sort of personal worth because they have something they deem as "better" than somone else, when they eventually grow up they will realise there will always be somone that has something better, and then theres those people that literally just could not give 2 ****.

The sad fact is, we are ALL gamers, and appreciate games, and like with games our flavours and tastes vary wildly, My all time favourite game, Zelda the Ocarina of time, others have Mario kart, and while i might not share their views i can at least relate to some of the games merits and flaws of the one that i picked.


might be better to post in the rant bud


Yeah your most likeley right mate, just kinda grates on me thats all :)

HoopPosted:

GR33NV3N0M I have to laugh at all these PC master race comments, while yes, the PC does have superior facilities, and hardware / software to work from there are also draw backs.

I currently have a decent gaming rig, recently built and i spent abot £1400 building it.

But i still tend to spend a lot of time with my consoles, due to the fact that i can play them with a lot of friends that dont have the means to spend that much on a pc, i can do it comfy from the sofa.

On top of that, realistically, a pc does need semi regular updates in terms of hardware every few years, in order to stay on top of its game.

I had an xbox 360 for what 8 years ? with no upgrades needed and it still played new games, never needing to update any of its hardware.

No matter where you go you will have those people that feel the need to post their childish comments about how "superior" their platform is but its just that childish behaviour where they feel some sort of personal worth because they have something they deem as "better" than somone else, when they eventually grow up they will realise there will always be somone that has something better, and then theres those people that literally just could not give 2 ****.

The sad fact is, we are ALL gamers, and appreciate games, and like with games our flavours and tastes vary wildly, My all time favourite game, Zelda the Ocarina of time, others have Mario kart, and while i might not share their views i can at least relate to some of the games merits and flaws of the one that i picked.


might be better to post in the rant bud


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