Because I read the fucking article and it says it right there.
Be more hysterical, people.
Steam security issue revealed personal info to other users on XMas Day (fixed)
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Because I read the fucking article and it says it right there.
Be more hysterical, people.
Their statement doesn't even acknowledge that personal information was compromised? Christ.
superNESjoe
Member
The irony being that the post you quoted was super tame, and you're the one "fucking raging".
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Sony's situation was far worse. Nothing really happened here on such a grand scale as far as I can tell.
Your use of profanity suggests maybe you're getting a little agitated too...
How did you come to this conclusion? If it was indeed cache key poisoning anyone could have seen anyone else's information.
Codeacious
Banned
Like I mentioned in my earlier post, I'm seriously shocked that Valve would deploy a configuration change on freaking Christmas, when everyone's gone on holiday and you can't easily react to potential issues. That's just asking to invoke Murphy's Law. Pity the problem here ended up being something far worse than Steam going down for an hour or two.
AcceptableGhost
Member
I dunno I feel like I get emails on a monthly basis about my private information being compromised. Hell it happened two days ago.
Still a huge fuck up though. They need to make an official statement on Steam and send emails out.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
How can you not understand that this statement is for Kotaku to publish on their website to their readers?
No need to get angry too, the only person acting hysterically is you right now.
I come from a culture where we fuckin swear a lot. Is that a problem mate?
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Only "some users", no biggie.
Palculator
Unconfirmed Member
This.
Your hostility suggests that interacting with people in this thread is a problem for you.
How can you not wait for their statement on steam before you condemn them?
This was far worse from an actual information leaking standpoint, but it appears to be over. PSN was just offline for ages...
I can't stop laughing at this comment, I think I'm just exhausted from this whole shit show.
I'm sure they will give a better and more official response later this week, Kotaku probably just asked for a brief statement.
It still is somewhat dirty they forgot to mention what type of data was leaked.
Silent Chief
Member
I don't know about that.
It's highly unlikely that anyone on Valve's side would have done anything on Christmas day. Basically nobody makes changes in computer infrastructure just before the holidays. When it comes to important parts of the public network, there used to be a blackout for anything meaningful that would cover the entire month of December. It's probably not as bad anymore, but still, even support staff are off on Christmas day. Except the contractors and that's not saying much.
On the other end, Christmas is the perfect day for someone to play Grinch.
It could be that someone has added a hash function or something alike to randomize user access.
But if it's a caching issue on the server side, every time you try to log into your account you might be pulling it up back in the cache and exposing it to others.
Really curious to hear what happened, but it might be years before the actual details are revealed.
Working now. Logged onto the desktop app and now the webpage and mobile app work too.
Not my problem if you mistake confrontation based on facts for hostility. Never been a person to tiptoe around people's feelings.
Merry Christmas. Don't care if you don't celebrate it.
GameInformer has the same message from Valve in their article.
Odds are it was not valve, but their cache service / CDN.
Forget gaming, this is arguably the worst security failure in internet history.
Basileus777
Member
That comment from Valve is infuriating. I hope they get sued into oblivion. Their anti-consumer bent is nothing new, but they've hit a new low here.
cartographer
Member
If Valve doesn't see an issue with the exposure of personal information, then they should feel free to share their full names, addresses, personal phone numbers, personal e-mails and last digits of their CC number with us.
Gaben pls?
Gaben pls?
nephilimdj
Member
check /r/steam, mods also are claiming valve are talking to them
Honestly its weird, valve has private channels but not to the public
Really? I'd love to see you quantify this
Or am I missing the joke; it's hard to tell at this point
superNESjoe
Member
I think we all saw that coming.
No it wasn't.
A few thousand people are going to be inconvenienced and that sucks major balls for them but on the grand scale of things it's not that crazy because there was no criminal intent.
Joke post, right?
Unknown Soldier
Member
Valve doesn't seem to get how serious what happened was yet.
Maybe a couple of class action lawsuits will wake them up.
Maybe a couple of class action lawsuits will wake them up.
Relaxed Muscle
Member
Why should we wait, when they already restarted the service? The store is ,badly, running up, and we have no way to fully know if the problem was truly resolved, except for a two sentence statement to a gaming publication.
If they had to shutdown the service and then they were ready to restart it, the less they could have done was inform their customers of this events, what provoked and how they resolved it.
No sorry, we shouldn't wait, because we have no reason to wait when other companies actually act like they should in this cases, specially since they clearly had the time to make that statement to Kotaku instead to their customers.
Palculator
Unconfirmed Member
Is this post serious?
Gentleman Jack
Member
Or more lawsuits from EU trade regulators.
That's fine and all. I think urging people to wait for Valve's response is the right approach. Other people want to be upset until they do. Don't see much wrong with that either. There's an implicit trust when saving information in a website. Especially in the case of a company like Valve, which morphed from an underdog to what it is now.
Saucycarpdog
Member
I'm scared, I had my credit card data on my steam account but since the banks are closed today I can't see if something was purchased on it.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Yep, I was able to access my profile on mobile, and all looks well.
Takamura-San
Member
You don't have online access to your account?
I checked in a different browser and login doesn't work there, either. Just goes back to the store page or community page, whichever one I used to click on a login button.
Hopefully they fix this, too, though I'm confused why that's an issue while most of us can login with the client.
Hopefully they fix this, too, though I'm confused why that's an issue while most of us can login with the client.
Pending transactions generally show up immediately.
Aw I don't think he deserved to be. Even if he was clearly too invested.
Doesn't seem like cc data was leaked.
No purchases were made, your CC number is also secured.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Just read about it I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage
"the biggest Internet security break-in ever".
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