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Ah, yes, the Valve-patented "let's cache user account pages in the CDN" strategy.


Did they also have a similar incident before?


Yes, a few years ago. It is the first thing I thought of when I saw this news.

For a brief period of time (a few hours?), Steam would show you as being logged in as another user. You could view their billing page and other restricted pages.




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