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Steam: No "Unauthorized Actions" On Exposed Accounts
The Steam bug that allowed users to see other users' account details may not have been as harmful as it first appeared. Valve said in a statement (reported on Mashable) that while cached data showed usernames, "sensitive details such as credit card numbers are automatically censored on user account pages, which mitigates the potential harm of someone having seen your personal data." From Mashable's report:
"Steam is back up and running without any known issues," Valve told Game Informer in a statement. "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."
That people over reacted for no reason!? What world are we living in for this to happen...
Seriously, there was never any reason for people to go crazy over this. It's not some hacking group seeing "your info", it's just other gamers around the world.
At most, your email is now on a spamming list and someone knows your home address if you let steam save that info. That's it. Nothing that you haven't already shared with spammers or on facebook at some point.
That is the way of their kind.
No, that'd be dark humor to show why we should hate white people, and would probably be a Spike Lee film.
Those corporations want to take everything we own.
All those people do is hate.
The Steam bug that allowed users to see other users' account details may not have been as harmful as it first appeared.
Well, that just all depends.
Are you the kind of person who gets terrified by ill-defined threats every time you read a headline? Then maybe it appeared harmful.
Are you the kind of rational-minded person who cautiously reaches tentative conclusions about things and leaves the door open for more information and refined analysis of risk? Then you probably didn't even give a f*ck.
It is the way of their kind.
They always do these sort of things to us.
This wasn't dishonesty. This was just plain hate. They hate us.
They are driven by hate. Between their constant killing of us and stealing our money by the bankster class, I am proven right. Proven right.
PRIVACY is of no value apparently
Ok, well, remember Jermey Clarkson? He claimed the same thing :)
Yeah, they believe, but would they stake their life on it? I don't think so!
You people had better change your passwords, etc.
It is the way of their kin.
Gabe Newell is a known democrat.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
Had $60 charged to my credit card because they could purchase on my behalf. What a joke.
Sure, your CC wasn't shown, but your name and address and phone number were. More than enough for some identity thieving. Old games. "double click icon, start playing" New games "open steam, login in, update steam, you are loging in from unknown location, verify login via email, restart, load steam, update game, ...."
Or you could just launch it in offline mode . . .
Or you could drive to Washington and punch GabeN in the balls.
I'm quite interested to see what EMVCo will do to them. What happened is a MASSIVE PCI DSS violation...