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 passwordLog inLog outChange any account informationAttempt purchasesGo to the front pageVisit your steam profileLink/unlink paypal or whateverVisit 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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