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Steam Security Issues

It was only put up an hour ago today in most places that do pc related news . Sorry to hear you one of those effected I hope they get it back for you.
 
My steam has been logged in all day but I haven't used it (it's on auto-login when my PC starts) so I don't know if I am affected in any way. Hopefully not.
 
well just check for any weird message's sent from you to your buddies and maybe lock it up for now.
 
Yeah I'm not super worried. It's just a hassle to lose an account. My hotmail account got hacked once and I was never able to get it back.
 
From SteamDB page:

Disclaimer: Steam Database is not affiliated with Valve in any way. We are a community run website.

An hour ago, Steam users started seeing incorrect information on the Steam Store, as if they were signed into someone else's account.

There is no official confirmation from Valve yet, so we can only speculate as to why this issue happened. Valve is known to use Akamai as their CDN and Varnish for caching. Our theory is that a caching misconfiguration in one of these components has caused Steam to incorrectly serve rendered and cached pages intended for a single user only.

This issue means that users’ private information such as email address, billing address, and sometimes credit card details are at risk. As far as we know, this issue is read-only, and no one is able to perform any actions involving your account on your behalf.

To protect yourself, we strongly recommend completely avoiding visiting any Steam store links. This includes visiting the Steam store using the Steam client.

This is not a hack or a DDoS attack. This is highly likely to be a misconfiguration in one of Valve’s caching layers.

At the time of this writing, the Steam store is inaccessible. We can only assume Valve is currently working on fixing the issue.

If you used a PayPal account and had the details saved, you can unlink your account by logging on PayPal.com and going to Settings and Preapproved payments under the Payment options heading.

Going forward, we strongly encourage you not to store your billing information on the Steam store. Valve have proven multiple times that they’re unable to keep their security standards to a high level.

Merry Christmas.

https://steamdb.info/blog/recent-caching-issues-on-steam/
 

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