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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junoPosted:

Well that is a little crazy

GR33NV3N0MPosted:

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.

SkyPosted:

Prejudice What really annoys me is that Phantom Squad try and take credit for doing this, when it was Valve's shit security cache issues.


phantom squad cant do anything lol

LAUGHING_TAC0Posted:

Well that's what I get for not spell checking, oh well

LAUGHING_TAC0Posted:

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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?


Bro PC is the master race, PSN is ALWAYS down lmao


It's people like you that bugs, clearly the PC is better we all know that. Just annoys me when they say pan goes down all the time, when it really doesn't. I think the last time pan was down for me was like maybe 6months ago. So please if your gonna try and something atleast know some facts first, Thank you. Regards, Laughing Tac0

322Posted:

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Daniel 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.


yea. the article was all wrong to be fair. it was just showing the wrong cache data. They couldn't spend your money or really access your account.

SagePosted:

We shouldnt start a "console war" since we all know and so do they that PC are just superior. There isnt anything to argue about.

ReevyPosted:

rghmodz
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?


Bro PC is the master race, PSN is ALWAYS down lmao

DinklebergPosted:

lilrichard22 I really hope the phrase "Master Race" goes away. All these devices and services are broken and vulnerable one way or another.


PC Master Race 5ever.

This article makes it sound MUCH worse than it actually worse. We could access others' accounts to a certain extent. Which wasnt very far.

lilrichard22Posted:

I really hope the phrase "Master Race" goes away. All these devices and services are broken and vulnerable one way or another.


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