Moreover it said that the DoS attack had caused around 34,000 users to have their sensitive personal information leaked.
Readers and gamer may remember that Steam servers were down on Christmas day between 11.50am PST and 1.20pm PST.
Attacks against Steam are a regular occurrence, according to Valve.
This configuration error resulted in some users seeing Steam Store responses which were generated for other users.
The store was brought back online only after its engineers had reviewed and deployed all new caching configurations.
source: www.techworm.net
