Steam, broken or hacked

[RizZy]

Something weird is going on with steam right now -

http://kotaku.com/steam-goes-nuts-offers-access-to-other-peoples-account-1749718979?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Twitter&utm_source=Kotaku_Twitter&utm_medium=Socialflow

[OldBloke]

I purchased a game on Steam today with no obvious issues but this is worrying :g:

[TeaLeaf]

Fortunately nothing showing as wrong here, but then steam have unplugged the store for the time being until this issue is fixed.

[albert]

It's been unreliable for a few days, maybe lunch time yesterday I noticed.

[Tutonic]

I noticed the store displaying things in Mexican Dollars earlier, and just assumed something had gone sideways with their DNS. Looks a tad more serious than that though.....

[Michelanio]

this is a locked thread on the steam forums: http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/458604254431478327/ where they say its not hacked.

Also found this on a 3rd party site: https://steamdb.info/blog/recent-caching-issues-on-steam/

[Michelanio]

Steam have put out a official update on what happened on the 25th: http://store.steampowered.com/news/19852

The internet celebrity Totalbiscuit also put out a video a short while before the steam update came out (doubt that he had anything to do with it though).

[video=youtube;esmKdMDvSGI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esmKdMDvSGI[/video]

[smilodon]

One small consolation was that the DDOS attack threatened by SkidNP was a wash out. Ironically though their complaint that security on services like Steam, PSN and Xbox is not fit for purpose seems to have some validity.