We reported earlier that a weird glitch took over Steam on Christmas morning, as several users reported seeing other users’ account information instead of their own. The issue was sorted out in a few hours, and later Valve confirmed that it was due to a caching issue.
While that may have been the direct cause of the glitch, it was caused due to another problem altogether. Turns out, Steam was the target of a DoS (denial of service) attack, which prevented serving of store pages to users. It caused the traffic to the…
Valve comes clean, admits Christmas day Steam glitch was due to DoS attack
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