Nabs
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Steam security issue revealed personal info to other users on XMas Day (fixed)
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Haha.
Funyarinpa
Member
Steam fighting the good fight, going down so that we spend time with our families while waiting for it to get fixed
Didn't we already have confirmation of full phone numbers being visible during this entire thread lol. People were saying all over they could see full addresses and phone numbers when going into the account info.
YianGaruga
Banned
This was posted 30 minutes ago, haven't seen it here.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/458604254431478327/
Is that an employee? It just says community moderator
Angry Fork
Member
Same, I always re-type it in. It only takes 10 sec and you can at least feel semi-secure that it's not stored somewhere although it probably is anyway. I get why people who do lots of purchases on steam like cases would keep cc info there though. They shouldn't have to worry about this sort of thing.
OK thanks. I've made purchases with PayPal and now unlinked via the PayPal account page.
It's just I had a fair amount of credit to buy a few games over the sale.
What a shitty situation. I really hope people are not affected in the way you mention.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
note that the person posting is a volunteer community monitor and while they might have a contact with valve, this still isn't an official message
lifa-cobex
Member
Cludo is better
AcceptableGhost
Member
Stump were you actively using Steam when people were being logged into your account on Steam or were you just idling?
ss_lemonade
Member
Seeing as how you could view a random person's account page without logging in, google's cache bots probably caught a copy of an unfortunate soul's page and cached iti just looked at someone's account using google's cache..
sigh..
It's also full of shit. People have seen addresses and numbers.
The Dear Leader
Banned
Melkr_ please update your glasses prescription as Half-Life 3 is the game "bought" in that image, it's clearly a joke.
fluffydelusions
Member
Oh hey look #Steam is trending on twitter
In these sorts of situations, that goes from eccentric to wildly irresponsible
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Yeah because valve compensates anything ever.
And_Gignac
Member
I know, "HL3".
It was a failed joke. Sorry. Should've added a /s.
Haunted
Member
This is a Steam community moderator, so this is not an official statement.This was posted 30 minutes ago, haven't seen it here.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/458604254431478327/
Same, also does that email pop up if people use money in your wallet? presume it does. So far ive had nothing from my bank or email say moneys been taken so thats good atleast.
What, no. I bought a lot of stuff with my mastercard from gog and steam these past months. The cc are loosened in these transactions at this point.
Cheeseman Battitude
Member
Please, Valve:
Not if they don't need to.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
i just looked at someone's account using google's cache..
sigh..
yep, this works. :|
Add it to your list then.
Seems that way, yeah.
They're not doing themselves any favors by posting this vague pr-speak stuff
The guy posting that isn't working for valve, he's a reddit mod inbetween.
But yes, valve isn't doing themselves any favors by not saying anything about this directly.
D
Deleted member 125677
Unconfirmed Member
Canceled steam as pre approved on paypal site
Now we drink whisky and hope for the best
Now we drink whisky and hope for the best
purvispisgah
Member
I haven't logged in to Steam in a couple days, and I haven't kept up with this at all. My wife saw it on Buzzfeed and told me.
Do I need to change my email password or anything like that?
Do I need to change my email password or anything like that?
faceless007
Member
how about not doing both and quitting the slapfight until we actually know what's going on?
We need someone trustworthy... like 4chan guy.
D
Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
At least Grief is trying to help. No need to be like that.
Pumped to get free copies of all of the valve games that all of my friends and I already own
Could be worse. Could be Rouge.
Nah.....if you had nothing pending and cancelled the pre approved on paypal side....it should be just drink whiskey and hope everyone else is ok.
Valve may not have anyone with access to the PR credentials. Engineers should be on call always, PR not necessarily. (Not forgiving Valve or giving them a pass, just trying to understand why)
I had gotten a new CC in June, after the summer sale. I didn't purchase anything else on steam until the winter sale started. I know for sure that I had my original CC info stored, but I can't remember if I told Steam to save the info for my current one when I used it the other day.
During last winter's sale my bank actually put a hold on my card because multiple Steam purchases within a few days was an unusual purchasing pattern and sent up red flags. I had to call my bank to authorize those purchases. The fact that my bank is on top of it and has those kinds of measures in place is comforting in case of the very unlikely chance that my account was one of the ones leaked.
My Steam e-mail is pretty much just my spam email and the phone number stored there is out of date. So it's not as bad as it could have been. But that's beside the point. The point is that some people's privacy has been violated and there is absolutely no excuse for it. Valve better try to compensate for this.
Also, it's worth mentioning that when I went to the profile of the guy whose account I was originally redirected to, his page was flooded with comments from people alerting him to the fact that he'd been compromised and trying to message him. The fact that so many people were trying to do the right thing in the face of something like this, instead of taking advantage of it, I think says volumes about the community.
During last winter's sale my bank actually put a hold on my card because multiple Steam purchases within a few days was an unusual purchasing pattern and sent up red flags. I had to call my bank to authorize those purchases. The fact that my bank is on top of it and has those kinds of measures in place is comforting in case of the very unlikely chance that my account was one of the ones leaked.
My Steam e-mail is pretty much just my spam email and the phone number stored there is out of date. So it's not as bad as it could have been. But that's beside the point. The point is that some people's privacy has been violated and there is absolutely no excuse for it. Valve better try to compensate for this.
Also, it's worth mentioning that when I went to the profile of the guy whose account I was originally redirected to, his page was flooded with comments from people alerting him to the fact that he'd been compromised and trying to message him. The fact that so many people were trying to do the right thing in the face of something like this, instead of taking advantage of it, I think says volumes about the community.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
People were able to see the full phone numbers and addresses.This was posted 30 minutes ago, haven't seen it here.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/458604254431478327/
EDIT: Community moderator.
Cheeseman Battitude
Member
At least they don't have Undertow to compensate us with. Do they? They don't, right?
Xamtheking
Member
Good thing I always set my Status to offline
Auto-Reply
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The client steam store is just a black screen here... strange!
They're not doing themselves any favors by posting this vague pr-speak stuff
That's a Steam Community Moderator, not a Valve employee or representative.
EDIT: Grief edited his post.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Man I'm so happy that I had a bad steam experience where I vowed never to buy directly from steam again (lagged when putting money in my wallet and steam customer service never replied to me when I wanted to take the second deposit back out).
Screw you valve customer service.
Thank you valve customer service!
What's the benefit of this? It stops cache?
Screw you valve customer service.
Thank you valve customer service!
What's the benefit of this? It stops cache?
protomouse
Member
Wow, what a mess. The responsible thing to do would be to take Steam offline, so as to limit the blast radius. Lack of communication from Valve up until this point has been disappointing.
butzopower
proud of his butz
How does Google cache their sites? Would this have worked before this new Valve caused cache issue?
Melkr is dying to buy Half-Life 3 right now.
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