And there was a DoS attack involved. Seems that Steam and their "partners" werent able to deal with both the DoS and winter sale rush at the same time and mistakes were made due to the overwhelming presure. Anyway, a response to a DoS attack is what caused the whole thing.
"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."
What do you think? Was this an honest mistake or should we grab those pitchforks and torches?
“Simple minds have always confused great honesty with great rudeness.” - Sherlock Holmes, Elementary (2013).
"Did you guys expected some actual rational fact-based reasoning? ...you should already know I'm all about BS and fraudulence." - FunFan, VGchartz (2016)
