URGENT: Don't buy anything on Steam right now

[Huw the Poo]

Something seriously wrong with the service.  Will update in a bit.

[Arctic Blast]

Don't do anything with your Steam account right now, since there's a very good chance you're actually doing so with someone else's account and financial details.

[Huw the Poo]

It looks at first glance like a major vulnerability.  I've put my Steam client into offline mode for now.  Still reading up on this.

[Arctic Blast]

If you were an idiot (like me) and had Steam save your Paypal info for quick buys, you can totally detach that from within the Paypal site.

[Tpek]

Always fun to load up Steam's website and find out it's in Polish and logged in as someone else :P

[Huw the Poo]

If you were an idiot (like me) and had Steam save your Paypal info for quick buys, you can totally detach that from within the Paypal site.

Good advice.  Also, if you're currently logged in and have credit card info saved, go to your account details page and delete it.  And never have it saved again! :P

My advice is to put your client into offline mode and if you're logged in on the website, log out.

[Apocalypse 31]

https://www.hackread.com/hackers-shutdown-ea-sports-steam-servers-for-christmas/

[Arctic Blast]

Just to lighten the mood a bit...man, some of these people have terrible taste in games. People actually purchase some of this crap?!

Good advice.  Also, if you're currently logged in and have credit card info saved, go to your account details page and delete it.

Keep in mind that doing so requires going to your account details, and you're probably going to find yourself looking at the account details of a completely different person.

For those who want to detach a Paypal account, log in to the Paypal and click on any Steam purchase in your transactions list. There will be a link in the entry that opens up saying 'Manage WWW.Steampowered.com payments'. Clicking on that brings up another Window. One of the lines at the top of that window mentions status. You can click to cancel the payment agreement between Paypal and Steam.

[Grim.Reaper]

You can also go into paypal and there is a screen called Payment Preferences...it lists all the places you have linked your account, including Valve....I was actually stunned to see how many places I had somehow linked.....immediately canceled them all (not just because of this event, but no reason to have them linked like that).

[Huw the Poo]

Looks like Valve have shut down the store.

The popular theory right now is that admin mode has somehow been unlocked for everyone.  I personally disagree, but there clearly is some kind of permissions issue and is potentially extremely serious.  Someone at Valve needs to purge their entire payment details database right now.

My money's on a hack.  Christmas Day has, sadly, become a popular time to hack stuff, and changes to permissions is an obvious resulting action.

[Huw the Poo]

This is going to be a shitty Christmas for some people at Valve. :(

[Grim.Reaper]

Could also be a page caching issue....where online sessions are being mixed up.....I have seen some applications do that before and can be messy....I guess we'll see:)

[Huw the Poo]

To reiterate: log out of Steam completely.  Preferably don't even go to the website any more.  If this is a hack, they could potentially be serving nasty shit to any visitors.

[Huw the Poo]

There are reports of fraudulent transactions appearing on credit cards (can you really see them that quickly?).  I'm taking it with a grain of salt, but if you do have card information saved on Steam, it's worth keeping a close eye on transactions.  And don't keep your card info saved on Steam.

[AchillesLastStand]

Just got on to delete my saved info and it wouldn't let me do anything, black screen was pretty much all I got regardless of what I clicked on.