Gratulation Valve/Steam for this email and a lot of no Information. I understand totally that you needet 2 month to send me this Email :)

Dear Steam User,

As you may know, for a brief period on December 25th, a configuration error resulted in some Steam users seeing incorrectly cached Steam Store pages generated for other Steam users. If you are not familiar with the issue, an overview of what happened is available at http://store.steampowered.com/news/19852/ .

If you accessed the Steam Store between 11:50 PST and 13:20 PST on December 25th, your account could have been affected by this issue. If you did not use the Steam Store during that time, your account was not affected.

Between the times above, a requested web page for information about your Steam account may have been incorrectly displayed to another Steam user in your local area. This page may have included your email address, country, purchase history and last 4 digits of your phone number if one was associated with your account. It may have also included the last two digits of a credit card number or a PayPal email address, if previously saved for future purchases. It did not include full credit card numbers, Steam account passwords, or other information that would allow another user to complete a transaction with your billing information.

We are contacting you because an IP address previously used by your account to access Steam made a web page request as described above. Because IP addresses are commonly shared for home networks, mobile devices and by internet providers, we are unable to verify that your account was actually the one that made this request. For example one affected IP address was previously used by over 1,700 Steam accounts. Consequently we are notifying all users who have previously used this IP address.

This event did not make it possible to compromise your Steam account or make a fraudulent transaction from your account, but we want you to be aware of what information could have been seen by another Steam user.

We're sorry this happened and have taken steps to prevent this problem from occurring in the future.

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two months and a week

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yeah ok but now they want that i ask them some questions, otherwise they give a shit on it. Thats something should not happen in that case. I mean its not a little Problem its a Huge Problem and they need 2 Month to tell me nothing.

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they need to (a) figure out how big a problem it really is, (b) figure out how much they want to tell you, and (c) figure out a way to tell you what they want to tell you while making it appear to be as small a problem as possible

but yeah, it shouldn't take this long. Basic emergency response planning and standard protocol meant a response within a week, at most.

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they should hire you :)

8 years ago
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I don't do disaster prevention/recovery.
I know some people who do. Valve should definitely hire them.

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Classic Valve Time

8 years ago
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eventually the worker who make this email is back from the winter holidays :)

8 years ago
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This is topic 3, or 4 on this now? lol
edit 2nd of 3.. not as bad ;)
Original was 8hrs ago and only I replied lol

8 years ago
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mine was the first so i dont care :) damn to early next time i send you a answer in 2 month thats how professional work today im so an amateur

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We're replying as new topics. :P.

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Well, their support personnel is like one intern as a part-time, so no wonder it took this long. heck, maybe it was even fast by their standards. 2 months used to be standard reaction time on support tickets that weren't about refunds.

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It's possible that Valve sent the e-mails shortly after the incident, but never activated their e-mail provider's anti-spam mobile authenticator, so the e-mails were held for 60ish days to help prevent fraud.

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Well, I haven't received mine yet, so I'll beat you :D

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If you accessed the Steam Store between 11:50 PST and 13:20 PST on December 25th...... I've slept since then how can I remember when if I was on at that time >>

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