Anyone else's steam suddenly in French?
Mine started up fine this morning, now after turning the pc on again, it has decided I am french and so is my brother. . . And it wont let us change back
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Evil meet my Sword. Sword, meet Evil!
Jeepers this looks pretty damn serious.
This is totally freaking me out why havent they shut the servers off?
No Idea but I went in offline mode.
It goes without saying, but avoid logging into any Steam websites until the issue has been remedied.
If you know you're already logged in, do NOT visit any Steam Community or Steam Store URL.
This includes any internet browser and the Steam Desktop/Mobile Client!
Playing games online should be fine. It'll prevent anybody else from logging into your account via desktop client.
Evil meet my Sword. Sword, meet Evil!
Someone is theorizing that it's a server caching issue.
That would make the most sense.It's a problem with their caching-server (varnish), caching pages that should not be cached (such as Account-Details, Cart, etc.). It invalidates after some time and is re-cached when the next user visits the page with their profile. You are not actually logged in (as in, you take over the session of the user), you just see pages rendered for others than yourself. This is why different parts of steam appear as different users.
Which page you see is probably dependent on the edge node (first server you connect to) closest to you, hence why different users see different profiles.
My guess to how this could've happened is that an untested configuration got activated when steam went down earlier, e.g. due to an auto-conf service (puppet, chef) pulling an untested config or some of their live servers being replaced by staging / development servers. It's also possible that they were under heavy load and the engineer on duty reconfigured all their edge nodes to cache more aggressively.
Let's hope they fix this fast, because this is a major data leak. I can see private E-Mail and account names. Let's hope their cache server is not delivering internal pages.
Just log out & wait.
Nobody's account is in any real danger as far as I can tell
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Yeah looks like its some cache problemOriginally Posted by HavocXphere
So simple solution would be to log out of Steam, go to your email and wait for any news. Also I recon we getting another Valve game for free for saying sorry.
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An hour ago, Steam users started seeing incorrect information on the Steam Store, as if they were signed into someone else's account.
There is no official confirmation from Valve yet, so we can only speculate as to why this issue happened. Valve is known to use Akamai as their CDN and Varnish for caching. Our theory is that a caching misconfiguration in one of these components has caused Steam to incorrectly serve rendered and cached pages intended for a single user only.
This issue means that users’ private information such as email address, billing address, and sometimes credit card details are at risk. As far as we know, this issue is read-only, and no one is able to perform any actions involving your account on your behalf.
To protect yourself, we strongly recommend completely avoiding visiting any Steam store links. This includes visiting the Steam store using the Steam client.
This is not a hack or a DDoS attack. This is highly likely to be a misconfiguration in one of Valve’s caching layers.
At the time of this writing, the Steam store is inaccessible. We can only assume Valve is currently working on fixing the issue.
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Going forward, we strongly encourage you not to store your billing information on the Steam store. Valve have proven multiple times that they’re unable to keep their security standards to a high level.
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