I agree with him that such things shouldn't happen and that Valve has to "up their game".
Nevertheless the whole "fiasko"/"desaster" is blown way out of proportion compared with other security breaches in the last years.
If we believe Valve, around 34,000 users data could be accessed. I don't want to sugarcoat that breach, but compared to other breaches in the last years (Sony: 77 million accounts in 2011, Steam: 35 million accounts in 2011, Blizzard: 14 million accounts in 2012, Ubisoft: 58 million accounts in 2013) or even last year (Anthem: 80 million patient and employee records, US prisons: 70 million phone call logs of inmates, Ashley Madison: 37 million accounts with very sensitive (blackmail-worthy) data, LastPass (a popular password manager, which can contain the passwords to all of your accounts for a lot of services)
- http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/
- http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/security/300077563/the-10-biggest-data-breaches-of-2015-so-far.htm/pgno/0/9
- http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/biggest-hacks-security-data-breaches-2015/3/
- http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/biggest-hacks-security-data-breaches-2015/9/
- http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/biggest-hacks-security-data-breaches-2015/16/
- http://uk.businessinsider.com/target-ebay-and-ubisoft-a-list-of-the-biggest-data-breaches-in-history-2015-7?IR=T
- http://www.zdnet.com/article/club-nintendo-site-hacked-customer-data-exposed/
Naturally, you don't care about the numbers, if you are one of the 34,000 steam users, which cached data could be seen. But who got access to this data in that case? Hackers, who want to harm you or want to steal your data? No, some random guy/girl, who is also a Steam user and probably a "normal" gamer. How high are the chances that this person wants to harm you by doxxing, swatting or whatever? He/She don't even know you. If he/she wants to harm random people just for the kicks, they have just to look someone up in the phone book... no reason to wait for a rare security breach of a gaminng platform.
