Steam's Christmas Day debacle exposed the details of 34,000 users

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Valve has now offered more information on what happened on Christmas Day, when some users of its Steam PC game download service viewed accounts on its web site other than its own. Valve said about 34,000 accounts were viewed in that fashion, due to a combination of a denial-of-service attack and an error from their web caching partner.

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