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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