Valve comes clean, admits Christmas day Steam glitch was due to DoS attack

31 December, 2015
We reported earlier that a weird glitch took over Steam on Christmas morning, as several users reported seeing other users' account information instead of their own. The issue was sorted out in a few hours, and later Valve confirmed that it was due to a caching issue.

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  • 01 Jan 2016

android guy, 31 Dec 2015sorry, but if i were valve, i would have done that too, to ... moretrue!!!! sometimes it best not to tell the whole truth when some thing like this happen.

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    • steam is lying
    • a0V
    • 01 Jan 2016

    The whole information was accessible nothing blured, i have screenshots of the whole information of some accounts. cause i kept reloaded the steam profile menu; i was wondering if someone hacked my account.

    names, address, phone number, email, you name it everything was in clear which is funny cause they're say its not the case, if i wanted i could load the information on web image hosting. so i'm pretty sure my information someone or more had access to it.

    and they're not even compensating either.

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      • prj
      • 01 Jan 2016

      mir, 01 Jan 2016We wouldn't be needing much security anyway, if it weren't ... moreYea, and we wouldn't need police if it wasn't for the criminals. Wake up thi isn't a perfect world

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        • 01 Jan 2016

        android guy, 31 Dec 2015well, This doesnt seem to be just a simple ddos attack, sin... morewithout hackers, they wont need security.

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          • uSW
          • 01 Jan 2016

          android guy, 31 Dec 2015well, This doesnt seem to be just a simple ddos attack, sin... moreWe wouldn't be needing much security anyway, if it weren't for these hackers.

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            • 0xS
            • 31 Dec 2015

            AnonD-447414, 31 Dec 2015Can't believe big companies can't defend them selves from a... morewell, This doesnt seem to be just a simple ddos attack, since there would have been success of ddos attack already, these ddosers are not the only tryharders to do so, valve surely has anti ddos system, but seems these ddosers found a workaraund/exploit and used it against valve. Without hackers, security cant be improved.

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              • pVN
              • 31 Dec 2015

              Can't believe big companies can't defend them selves from a simple DoS attack.

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                • Anonymous
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                • 31 Dec 2015

                Anonymous, 31 Dec 2015It's called DDoS =|DDoS (distributed DoS) is just another way of DoS.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • J9V
                  • 31 Dec 2015

                  I hate Valve with passion.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • T6r
                    • 31 Dec 2015

                    It's called DDoS =|

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                      • android guy
                      • 0xS
                      • 31 Dec 2015

                      sorry, but if i were valve, i would have done that too, to keep people calm and not panic. If valve would have come up like "we were hacked and people's privacy are now public but we will resolve in few hours" doesnt help at all.

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