Millions of Steam users were met with a nasty surprise on Christmas day as an apparent caching issue on the popular gaming service gave users limited access to random accounts. Business as usual, I guess. Threads on Reddit are titled “I’m logged in as someone random on Steam?” and “Signed into a random stranger’s account”.
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Now reports are emerging of users getting access to the account details of other Steam users including access to their email, phone number and credit card details.
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So yeah, it’s a huge mess.
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An official cause has not been issued, but speculation (including from the diligent Valve followers at Steam Database) is pointing to a caching issue gone horribly wrong. While the client seems fine, the web site is throwing up random users when you visit.
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Whatever the case, some users are openly wondering why Valve has yet to take Steam offline until a fix can be implemented. Using Steam Guard and the Steam Mobile Authenticator-two tools for protecting your Steam account-both appear to be doing nothing to prevent this: Two accounts I’ve been shown the information shown for have been equipped with one or the other. It’s quite daunting because you see other peoples’s accounts and their currency too.
