Steam's Christmas Day debacle exposed the details of 34,000 usersValve has now offered more information on what happened on Christmas Day, when some users of its Steam PC and Mac game download service viewed accounts on its web site other than its own. Valve said about 34,000 accounts were viewed in that fashion, due to a combination of a denial-of-service attack and an error from their web caching partner. Valve said the attack caused traffic on the Steam site to go up by 2000%: "In response to this specific attack, caching rules managed by a Steam web caching partner were deployed in order to both minimize the impact on Steam Store servers and continue to route legitimate user traffic. During the second wave of this attack, a second caching configuration was deployed that incorrectly cached web traffic for authenticated users. This configuration error resulted in some users seeing Steam Store responses which were generated for other users. Incorrect Store responses varied from users seeing the front page of the Store displayed in the wron...<br clear='all'/>
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Steam's Christmas Day debacle exposed the details of 34,000 users
