Steam's Christmas privacy issues affected 34,000 users

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On Christmas day, up to 34,000 Steam members were able to
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, including billing and email addresses, following a glitch triggered by a denial-of-service attack,
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today. On the day of the attack, Valve said that the glitch was the result of a caching issue, and that users were able to view strangers' information, though they couldn't take action on other people's accounts. Valve's update today clarifies the caching issue, attributing it to the DoS attack.

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