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Steam Users Hit by Christmas Day Breach Finally Notified

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Dissent

Stephanie Mlot reports:

Valve has apologized for a winter Steam Sale breach—more than two months after 34,000 users had personal information exposed to other shoppers.

The target of a Christmas Day denial of service attack, the online shop was overwhelmed by 2,000 percent more traffic than usual. In an effort to counter the assault, a Valve partner deployed new caching rules, one of which incorrectly cached Web traffic for authenticated users, allowing some people to access details generated for others.

Read more on PC Magazine.

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