Steam Goes Nuts, Offers Access To Other People's Accounts

An apparent malfunction is hitting Steam right now, giving players across the world access to the wallets and buying history of other people’s accounts. It’s not yet clear how this security breach occurred.

Various players across the world are reporting logging into the Steam client and finding that their homepage has changed to Russian or other random languages. When they check the “account info” section of Steam, they find that they have access to another user’s account, complete with e-mail addresses, buying history, and other private information.

Based on some rudimentary testing I’ve done on my own Steam client, it seems like trying to view purchase histories and licenses will bounce around other random accounts, too.

The account that my client accessed is using Steam Guard, the tool Valve provides to help prevent unauthorized account access.

We’ve reached out to Valve for more information and will keep updating you guys as we learn more.

You can reach the author of this post at jason@kotaku.com or on Twitter at @jasonschreier.

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