December 25,2015
As we all were busy in celebrating the last week of the year 2015, there was a huge security issue reported by Steam Users amid.
All the cryptography techniques of Steam proved to be unsuccessful as the private data such as purchase history , Paypal information, Steam wallet balances of Users was made PUBLIC for an time interval declassifying all the secret information.
Rumors reported a Denial-of-Service (DOS) attack on Steam server which stopped the serving of the store pages. However, ” there was a caching issue as a result of the configuration changes which allowed only the cached pages to be visible “as per statement by Steam Marketing Director . All the 34,000 users online between 11:50pm to 13:20am victimized the attack.
Steam was quickly shut down for preventing the further damage and resetting it to new configuration was done by Steam Web Caching partner as an preventive measure.
After, the combing operation was successful Steam returned back to its original state.
