Valve's Christmas mix-up leaves users steaming
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Most Steam users are probably familiar with the flaky performance of the service during Valve's big sales. Unfortunately for Valve, the problems that hit the service on Christmas day weren't caused by legions of loyal fans. Instead, those issues were caused by a denial-of-service attack, and they were made worse by Valve's response to the attack.
Around the time that issues with Steam arose, Valve stated that a configuration change caused a caching issue that resulted in some users randomly seeing pages that were generated for other users. According to the company, the situation lasted for about ...