Credit card numbers weren't leaked, but personal information was

[Nikke]

There's an alarming amount of misinformation spread to as what information was spread. In case you saved a payment method on your profile, you could access the payment window while on a cached profile. While you could not purchase anything, it automatically filled the payment window with the profile owners personal information such as full name, phone number, full address & post number and whatever else they put down there.

Do not downplay this and claim nothing of importance was leaked.

[Birdy]

This.

[Spider]

Where the heck can you even add your adress or stuff like that? Never saw anything like that when i created my account or when i check it now.

[Alex]

Spider eredeti hozzászólása:

Where the heck can you even add your adress or stuff like that? Never saw anything like that when i created my account or when i check it now.

Only happens when you go to buy something.

[Birdy]

Spider eredeti hozzászólása:

Where the heck can you even add your adress or stuff like that? Never saw anything like that when i created my account or when i check it now.

If you link certain credit/debit cards, you have to fill in your address. Also billing address information.

[Nikke]

Spider eredeti hozzászólása:

Where the heck can you even add your adress or stuff like that? Never saw anything like that when i created my account or when i check it now.

When you buy stuff with say, Visa or whatever card you own, you fill the form with your card information, followed by your personal info. After that, you can tick an option where your information is saved for quick future purchases and it automatically fills the form for you. While the caching glitch happened, people who chose this option could have ANYONE who accessed their profile during it see all the information they submit.

[RiO]

Spider eredeti hozzászólása:

Where the heck can you even add your adress or stuff like that? Never saw anything like that when i created my account or when i check it now.

When you purchase a game and pick credit card as the payment method you are able to store the payment information.

If you've been relying on third-party payment services such as PayPal, or national systems for online purchases via bank transactions such as the Dutch iDEAL system, then you wouldn't have that info on file.

Interestingly, I wonder if the data Valve requests of you taxing in the US when you've reached the applicable limit in Market transactions was in danger of being leaked...

[Nope]

was the email adress leaked?

[Nikke]

LT__DATA eredeti hozzászólása:

was the email adress leaked?

Yes.

[SkyLine99]

omg really ? you mean my id , my password , my email the hacker knows them ?

[Xethor]

ZeReX ~~~~~~> Road_To_Silver eredeti hozzászólása:

omg really ? you mean my id , my password , my email the hacker knows them ?

Not the password

[Nikke]

ZeReX ~~~~~~> Road_To_Silver eredeti hozzászólása:

omg really ? you mean my id , my password , my email the hacker knows them ?

They don't know your password, but if someone got your profile from the cache glitch, they could have checked anything that is revealed in your account details. Your password is safe, though

[SkyLine99]

RIP

[Birdy]

ZeReX ~~~~~~> Road_To_Silver eredeti hozzászólása:

omg really ? you mean my id , my password , my email the hacker knows them ?

Firstly, it wasn't hackers that gained access to account information. It was regular users gaining access to cached pages of other user's account details.

Secondly, information leaked is limited to any billing information and maybe e-mail address

[Nope]

Nikke eredeti hozzászólása:

ZeReX ~~~~~~> Road_To_Silver eredeti hozzászólása:

omg really ? you mean my id , my password , my email the hacker knows them ?

They don't know your password, but if someone got your profile from the cache glitch, they could have checked anything that is revealed in your account details. Your password is safe, though

Oh my god this was a big event and i am scared as you do i think and i think how scared are the guys that have like 1000 games in steam

[Nikke]

Mr Bird Jesus eredeti hozzászólása:

ZeReX ~~~~~~> Road_To_Silver eredeti hozzászólása:

omg really ? you mean my id , my password , my email the hacker knows them ?

Firstly, it wasn't hackers that gained access to account information. It was regular users gaining access to cached pages of other user's account details.

Secondly, information leaked is limited to any billing information and maybe e-mail address

They could also see your steam guard status, billing history, market transactions and such. This could be use maliciously for claiming proof of ownership.