Steam: a bug exposes personal data – ZDNet France

On Christmas day, many eyes were on PSN and Xbox Live online services, both threatened with paralysis by hackers team. Nothing happened but it’s the side of Steam users have experienced a lot of fears.

This Friday night, some of them have noticed their accounts from access to data Personal others like their email address, their historical purchases, or their numbers (incomplete) credit cards.

Towards 22h, Valve decided to close the platform, this is a first. It is investigating to identify the problem. After an hour of interruption, Steam is operational again. In the night, a Steam moderator reminded that “credit and phone card numbers are masked, as required by law, and are therefore invisible to users.”

Later, Valve disseminates a formal statement highlighting “a cache problem that could have allowed some users to see randomly generated pages for other users.”

The problem would be solved, no personal given would have been compromised and users have no particular measures to be taken, the editor added. Valve is still a little fast because personal information has indeed been exposed as complete mail addresses or purchase history. But for Valve, the incident is closed.

Still, credit card numbers, the most sensitive data, displayed themselves are unusable since only the last 4 digits are displayed, as required US law.

Steam nevertheless be recalled that attracts hackers,
 organized today in real network “very effective”. 77,000
 accounts are hacked every month and objects then players
 
resold …