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Final Update:

 

Everything is back to normal, return to your posts, resume spending excessive amounts of money on games while simultaneously mourning the death of daily deals. Your password was not compromised, no one could buy things using your information etc, all good once more. Though this IS a convenient reminder to use two-factor authentication when you can as well as not storing personally identifiable information online if you can help it.

 

DO NOT:

  • Change your Steam password
  • Log in
  • Log out
  • Change any account information
  • Attempt purchases
  • Go to the front page
  • Visit your steam profile
  • Link/unlink paypal or whatever
  • Visit any Steam store links, in or out of the Steam client

 

Steam is having issues with the caching, which is allowing users to view other users account information and such. To minimize your exposure to this problem, don't do any of the following above, especially the stuff in bold. 

 

You can keep up to date on the situation via this Reddit post that will be kept up to date, as well as in the #hawkenscrim IRC, the SteamDB Twitter (not officially Valve affiliated): ( https://twitter.com/SteamDB), and other Valve information resources.

 

You can still play games and access your library - that's all good, so continue Hawkening it up as you would normally - just don't go to the store or your Steam profile or anything like that. Don't buy MC for now, either.

 

 

Update 1:  Valve has taken the Steam store page down, continue using caution when using any Steam Community or Steam Account related things. Caution meaning don't do it still.

 

Update 2: This caching issue has been resolved. That said I think the store page is still being kept down for a while longer, and the resolution of the issue has not been confirmed by Valve themselves (though there's still been no official acknowledgement that there was ever a problem). So, while you can feel safer at this point, continue to use caution when doing anything Steam related for the time being.

 

Update 3:  Now that the caching issue is resolved, there is even more proof indicating that this was a read-only caching issue. Testing and research indicates that users were never able to take actions on behalf of other users.


Edited by Saturnine, 25 December 2015 - 06:07 PM.

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Thanks for the warning. Hope this gets fixed soon.

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The store page is reported to have been taken down, though I don't know for sure whether that's the case since checking isn't the best idea. For now, continue to not visit store pages and account information pages; if it comes up as down consider it a good thing.

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It's not a caching issue, stop saying that! THEY ARE BEING HACKED.

 

They were even WARNED IN ADVANCE THAT THIS WOULD HAPPENhttp://www.ibtimes.c...ristmas-1534147

 

If you use the same password for steam as anything else, CHANGE THOSE PASSWORDS immediately!


Edited by Nightfirebolt, 25 December 2015 - 02:06 PM.


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It's not a caching issue, stop saying that! THEY ARE BEING HACKED.

 

They were even WARNED IN ADVANCE THAT THIS WOULD HAPPENhttp://www.ibtimes.c...ristmas-1534147

 

If you use the same password for steam as anything else, CHANGE THOSE PASSWORDS immediately!

You sound like this guy:

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Are you this guy?


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Jet fuel can't melt Steam beams.
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But it can weaken them to the point they become so soft they can no longer be load bearing...

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This caching issue has been resolved. That said I think the store page is still being kept down for a while longer, and the resolution of the issue has not been confirmed by Valve themselves (though there's still been no official acknowledgement that there was ever a problem). So, while you can feel safer at this point, continue to use caution when doing anything Steam related for the time being.

 

 

Update 3:  Now that the caching issue is resolved, there is even more proof indicating that this was a read-only caching issue. Testing and research indicates that users were never able to take actions on behalf of other users.


Edited by Saturnine, 25 December 2015 - 03:25 PM.

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You sound like this guy:

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I miss that guy.


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So, while you can feel safer at this point, continue to use caution when doing anything Steam related for the time being.

HOW CAN I EVER FEEL SAFE AGAIN?


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SHUT UP, NERD


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YOU WILL FEEL SAFE ONCE YOU HAVE THE GREAT EOC BY YOUR SIDE ! FOR THE GREAT PUCK HATH SAID YEE ACCOUNT BE TROUBLE FREE ONCE THEE LAY DOWN SUPPRESSIVE OF ME ! JOIN THE RANKS OF THE CULT OF EOC AND NEVER LET THE MORTAL FAILINGS OF STEAM WORRY YOU ROBROS !!

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You sound like this guy:

 

Are you this guy?

 

No.

 

I don't see the connection. I was not ranting about Hawken going out of business, nor have I ever done that. I was simply trying to warn people about a potential hack to Steam's servers that enabled random people to see our personal profile info.

 

It turns out that this glitch wasn't the work of hackers, and I apologize for my alarmist remarks, but it just seemed a little too coincidental that Steam went fuzzy bunny exactly on the day that a hacking group said it would.

 

Either way, keeping a unique password for Steam is still a good idea.

 

So, if you're trying to insult me, go fuzzy bunny yourself, because I was just trying to help.


Edited by Nightfirebolt, 25 December 2015 - 11:14 PM.

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You sound like this guy:

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No.

 

I don't see the connection. I was not ranting about Hawken going out of business, nor have I ever done that. I was simply trying to warn people about a potential hack to Steam's servers that enabled random people to see our personal profile info.

 

It turns out that this glitch wasn't the work of hackers, and I apologize for my alarmist remarks, but it just seemed a little too coincidental that Steam went fuzzy bunny exactly on the day that a hacking group said it would.

 

Either way, keeping a unique password for Steam is still a good idea.

 

So, if you're trying to insult me, go fuzzy bunny yourself, because I was just trying to help.

 

You are absolutely right. I exposed a handful of phishing mails, about a year ago, requesting STEAM password confirmations from me, and i reported them to STEAM. I was notified, that they were really fakes, sent in fraudulently intent. My account was also about to be hijacked two times since the last two years, and the only thing that prevented to loose control over it, was the STEAM-guard solution. I recommend to follow Nightfirebolt's suggestions - don't take it too easy.

 

Merry X-mas to all...


Edited by gArphEus, 26 December 2015 - 05:49 AM.

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No.

 

I don't see the connection. I was not ranting about Hawken going out of business, nor have I ever done that. I was simply trying to warn people about a potential hack to Steam's servers that enabled random people to see our personal profile info.

 

 

you were trying to warn people about a potential hack? doesn't appear that way from your first post in this thread.

 

in addition to hypocrisy, it seems you are also devoid of how computers work at a basic level. nothing wrong with unintentional ignorance, but yet you have your own post confused.

 

fool


Edited by Cytor, 26 December 2015 - 03:40 PM.


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you were trying to warn people about a potential hack? doesn't appear that way from your first post in this thread.

 

in addition to hypocrisy, it seems you are also devoid of how computers work at a basic level. nothing wrong with unintentional ignorance, but yet you have your own post confused.

 

fool

 

Yes, I jumped to conclusions based on the available evidence. Was I wrong? Yes.

 

Still, there's no need to be insulting.


Edited by Nightfirebolt, 27 December 2015 - 04:43 PM.

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