Hackers hit game networks again

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It looks like the arseholes with no friends have decided to ruin everyone else's Christmas again.

Steam attacked and down all day. EA taken down for 3 hours. And rumours about Playstation and xbox networks having issues.

Why? Their excuse is they are showing the companies their network vulnerabilities. But do they have to on Christmas day and ruin loads of peoples Christmas presents?

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I just believe they are extortionists with hacking skills , I don't believe they don't try to get some sweet dough out of this... you wanna show someone their network sucks? you do it anytime you want, you don't wait until the holidays - this specific time is just a pressure point IMHO
 
I got an email the other day saying futuremark forums got hacked,,, they rewound to a backup......... scum bags... why dont they hack the fbi or mi6 then get some real attention.
 
They're just script kiddies who use commonly available DDoS tools, naming them "hackers" gives them attention they want.
 
I had other languages showing up in steam not knowing there was a problem until today
 
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When I tried to use Steam yesterday to grab a few sale bargains the store wasn't loading but my profile was. And the wishlist was in a constant page refresh loop. Everything seems back to normal now though, as expected from such a large company. But how much money must they have lost on Christmas day?

There is also the rumour that some strange caching issue meant many users found themselves logged into other users accounts with access to their personal details. So might be worth everyone resetting their passwords today.

EAs attack must have stung too with the popularly of their multilayer fps games. And especially Star Wars Battlefront.

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Shoonay said:
They're just script kiddies who use commonly available DDoS tools, naming them "hackers" gives them attention they want.
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Yep, not even good at what they do. It's like giving a baby a gun and calling him an assassin
 
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/12/25/steam-is-going-haywire-people-can-access-others-accounts/

As a result of a configuration change earlier today, a caching issue allowed some users to randomly see pages generated for other users for a period of less than an hour. This issue has since been resolved. We believe no unauthorized actions were allowed on accounts beyond the viewing of cached page information and no additional action is required by users.
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Configuration change, ey? Did they upgrade to W10? ;)
 
Sardine said:
why dont they hack the fbi or mi6 then get some real attention.
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Cos then they'd have the fbi or british intelligence(!?) chasing them I would imagine. The likes of Sony are soft targets and not much will be done to track hackers down compared to if you hit the government, then it would get serious real fast and you risk going to prison without a trial in the US!

Hack the planet!!!!! (if you know the film lol)
 
I initially thought exactly that. However they make life much more convenient and clutter free that most of us eventually use them.

At the moment the biggest issue is centralising everything. If there was a way to spread the services out in a net similar to the idea of the Internet itself, then there would be no single location to attack. Our maybe even a peer system similar to torrents when the data and services are via linked nodes. Could work. Not sure how the security of member financial records would be compared to current methods though.

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Harrison said:
I initially thought exactly that. However they make life much more convenient and clutter free that most of us eventually use them.
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Yes, and then that makes them prime targets for exactly this sort of nonsense.

And decentralizing them will never happen, because the entire point of them is (this may come as a shock) for a few parties to maintain proprietary control over them in order to make money.
 
That's not what I meant. I meant the data for Steam or whatever service it is spread out across multiple server farm locations around the world, with any compromised sites able to be taken down and the rest fill the gap.

Although it now seems that it might not have been an attack at all, but instead a cache server configuration error.

Because of the sale someone at Steam reconfigured the way it was caching pages (front page offers updating more frequently meant a static cached home page wouldn't work) and someone managed to get it wrong, telling the cache server to cache member account pages and serve the cached page to the next accessing member. Hence being able to see the wrong account when logging in. This led to them taking down the sales sections of the site to purge the wrong cache data. What a mess up.

Also this means people are lying when they say others used their accounts and purchased loads of games, because the wrong account pages loaded were just static cache pages and not active to use.

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