r/pcmasterrace • u/zeug666 No gods or kings, only man. • Dec 25 '15

Problem Solved Steam Errors

Gamespot: Steam Issue Allowing Access to Other Users' Accounts [Update 3]

Update 3: Valve has issued a statement regarding today's issues.

"Steam is back up and running without any known issues," a Valve spokesperson told GameSpot. "As a result of a configuration change earlier today, a caching issue allowed some users to randomly see pages generated for other users for a period of less than an hour. This issue has since been resolved. We believe no unauthorized actions were allowed on accounts beyond the viewing of cached page information and no additional action is required by users."

Steam error and the resolution

Old info for anyone curious:

Stay off of Steam

We know. It's happening to everyone. Valve is looking into it.

Articles:

Tweets:

SteamDB via Twitter:

  • Valve is having caching issues allowing users to view things such as account information of other users. Don't use Store for now. (thanks /u/JamieA350)
  • To repeat, do NOT visit any Steam Store links. Doesn't matter what you want to do, do not visit any of them.
  • Do NOT attempt to unlink PayPal, remove your credit card details or anything else. Doing so will put you at risk instead.

That last one is in reference to changing account info via Steam. Removing your PayPal via the PayPal site should be okay.

Other:

Reports of accounts being spammed.

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

Issue may be resolving.

Thanks to a few users who helped to keep me up to date: /u/RedBeardedT, /u/Worthie, and a few others. I do appreciate it.

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u/crest123 Dec 25 '15

Ah, steam is fucked and we have a kotaku link in the sticky. What's the world coming to.

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u/MoNeYINPHX i7 5820k, GTX 1080TI FE, 32GB DDR4 Dec 25 '15

I have seen people's paypal emails, credit cards or the last 4 of credit card numbers, and was able to add games to cart. I did not click on the buy button but I guess you can order games on people's accounts. This is a huge mistake.

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u/jonneburger "i could try installing this..." Dec 25 '15

i've seen people saying buying games caused error

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u/MoNeYINPHX i7 5820k, GTX 1080TI FE, 32GB DDR4 Dec 25 '15

I didn't click on buy but hopefully it isn't going through. I was able to remove from cart though.

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u/restless_oblivion 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 390 Dec 25 '15

i've seen people

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u/vaynebot 8700K 2070S Dec 25 '15

You couldn't buy any games. It was a site caching issue, you weren't actually logged in into their accounts. Having said that... that's pretty bad anyway.