Valve is behind the attack so it can scare its own customers into using the mobile authenticator! Half Life 3 is the produce of an Illuminati project! Steel beams melt jet fuel! HIIIISSSSS LEAFY HIIISSSS!
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lol you are kidding right ?
Valve is losing a lot of money right now.....
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I swear someone is going to make a sarcasm detector for internet use and gonna be richer than the top 5 Forbes richest people combined.
Yes, I'm kidding.
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I dont think that guyread the full thing, I mean, its the onlyoption i can think off since he didnt understood it was a joke which was hilarious btw xD
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Steam always glitching till big sales. This news is kind of trolling.
Also if you forgot SteamDB is a fan project.
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Here is a LIVE stream on Reddit with users posting current steam status
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Store page is alive again at normal speed (no lag and such as of right now on my end).Looks like the attack is over.
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i still can't login...
EDIT: oh, 5 seconds later - working. ^^
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Same for me : store page seems fine but login doesn't work.
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To be honest, I never expected this to happen. Valve, Gabe, WTF is going on?
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They was too busy playing with they new Star Wars toys
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Seem working on desktop but on mobile app still cant log in , i logged out during the issue i think i am f**ked now...
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I'm pretty pissed off, their servers are always laggy and a simple DDoS turns into an unexpected massive leak of datas. Well done Valve, you really suck.
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why do you think it was a DDoS attack? everone says it was no attack...
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That's true tho, but it seems so.. i dont know the word, the only thing i know is that they tried to cover it up very badly
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A DDoS attack works in the way, that hackers create so many requests, that the servers are not able to fullfil their function anymore, which results in websites not loading at all anymore. what we saw here, was something very different. i was able to see another guy's personal information. and the data was received quite quickly. absolutely doesn't sound like a DDoS attack to me.
what do you mean, they covered it up badly? do you have any source for that?
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Oh I didnt expressed myself at all. Well, the group that hacked steam last year said they were going to it again on Christmas day, AND steam made some twitter posts explaining the situation and it sounded like a lie since every post they made after quotes more things we should be careful about until it got fixed. May not be DDoS, but was definitely hacking, they didn't admitted for people to not panic, but that is my opinion
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What Blue and KA said, Bear.
DDoS attack =/= hack.
Also, the glitch was a major screw up, but had it been a real hack, people would've been able to do more than just access cached pages, believe me. Actual purchases, trades, etc., would have ensued.
And as far as to anyone's knowledge, yes, there was a major leak of info (which is quite crappy, don't get me wrong, and Valve should get their act together), but no real substantial control over the accounts was had. Which doesn't excuse Valve's part in this, not even by 0,00001%. Nope.
It's only natural though that the groups behind the DDoS attacks take claim for stuff they didn't actually do (has happened in the past, it's not unprecedented). Might seem like an over the top analogy, but they're called cyber-terrorists for a reason. They get off on instilling panic and mayhem and to ruin everyone else's day and boast about how competent they are and then take a pseudo moral high ground as in oh we did it so you'd fix your security. Most of them are kids (mentally or otherwise), whether they're gifted or otherwise in regards to their computer knowledge is completely irrelevant as far as i'm concerned. They could spend all their energy doing something positive but they choose to be the Cyber-Grinch, so...
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Valve admitted the DDOs scrub, I was right, now 1v1 me on Cs :p
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O.o
Did you read what i wrote, dumb(o)ear?
I didn't say the DDoS didn't happen, i said DDoS =/= hack.
The DDoS did happen, but the rest (the caching issue) was more than likely a Sys Admin screw-up. They can claim they hacked the servers all they want, but a DDoS attack isn't a hack. Get it now? :)
Seemingly though... KA and Blue are actually not entirely on the same page about this, concerning what actually took place, hence the probable reason for your confusion of what a DDoS attack is, if there is any still.
But i just clarified they're not one and the same, just so we're clear this time. I hope. :3
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Why do you assume I read anything you write?
HUEHUEHUE
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You're mixing two separate issues. There was a DDoS attack on the Steam servers. However there was also a technical glitch in the caching of information on said servers for about an hour that was relaying the wrong information back to logged in users. It was caused by a server misconfiguration. Steam took its servers offline briefly to fix that issue.
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i am not mixing anything. i know there was the cache server issue. that is what i mean. to my knowledge there was no DDoS attack there was something like an annoucement earlier, but no confirmed DDoS attack. correct me, if i'm wrong.
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yeah, that was confirmed now. you didn't know that 4 days ago. ^^
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Well actually there were several articles easily found on Google about the attackers very publicly claiming they were hitting both EA and Steam four days ago. EA put out a statement confirming this was true, but Steam was in the thick of dealing with the caching issue and not responding publicly.
I figured if you were really interested you'd find it yourself. But there's Steam's official explanation now.
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Well actually there were several articles easily found on Google about the attackers very publicly claiming they were hitting both EA and Steam four days ago
i was relating to the source of information posted here (like probably almost everybody else), and the source explicitly said it's not a hack, it's a caching issue. if you knew better, why didn't you just say it? instead you keep silent for 4 days, because you think we would figure it out ourselves, if we were interested enough? makes total sense. ^^
also, a hacker group claiming resonsibility for an incident like this is not really enough to take it as a fact. we had this before. sometimes these guys just like to take credit for someone elses "work". so in order to be sure, we really need some kind of official confirmation.
the attackers very publicly claiming they were hitting both EA and Steam four days ago.
as i read now, those were not even the same guys. the group that attacked Steam (SkidNP) was not the same that attacked EA (Phantom Squad). whatever, both are groups of morons, and they should invest their time in something more constructive.
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Valve admitted it was a DDOs attack, you sir\lady got owned :p
Happy new year!
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Welp fuck, before finding out what was going on I tried to Log IN 3 times because I was logged out Q_Q . I should probably change my password... XD
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After the crash
I checked now and i have instaled on my inventory HL3
:p
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Didn't touch my toothbrush also this morning - just in case.
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For testing, I logged out, I couldn't log back in, I tried resetting password and it says
s*@a**.* Is this your email? which is not. so i checked my bank and no money was taken, I fooled around for an hour and I got my account back and changed the password for good measure, then changed the email back..
so am I free from the bond of attackers/ foolishness of valve?
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Haha looks like I slept through an exciting event. Went to bed at around 17:00 yesterday.
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I saw this on reddit and i laughed ironically. Volvo messes things up, you are not allowed to use your legal right to charge back your C.C.'s money from your bank...
"Screw your statement Valve, my account was used!
However, if you believe that your account was in some way used to purchase or trade games / items / furry animals / virtual livestock etc. without your permission. Contact Steam Support at help.steampowered.com.
Do not charge back via your credit card company - you will be suspended "
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According to SteamDB guys and Steam subreddit, don't visit Steam Store or Steam Community. Don't login or logout. Don't touch anything.
SteamDB twitter: "To repeat, do NOT visit any Steam Store links. Doesn't matter what you want to do, do not visit any of them." "The best way to protect yourself is to completely avoid Steam websites for now."
+info:
https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/680492664610000896
https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/680494433826115585
Edit: more info from SteamDB twitter: "Do NOT attempt to unlink PayPal, remove your credit card details or anything else. Doing so will put you at risk instead." https://twitter.com/SteamDB/status/680497713885102082
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