I've noticed last night and tonight that Steam has been pretty damn slow. Constant refreshes and such on my end get me to where I'm going. But I just wrote it off. Rumor going around that Steam was hacked. At first everybody thought it was a simple DDOS attack, apparently not.
Valve sent out this email to some people (like Kotaku)
It's unconfirmed if it's been hacked or if this email is real. Only just found out about it.
Seems someone got steamed that they didn't get all 10 cards to make the Snow Globe 2013 badge.
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Valve sent out this email to some people (like Kotaku)
Here at Valve we work our hardest to protect our customers and their private information. We are sorry to inform our community at Steam that Valve databases have been breached. Currently, we are checking our databases to see if account information and credit cards have been confiscated. We will inform our loyal community directly within the coming hours. As for our servers, we are confident they will be back online by 9 P.M. PST.
We apologize for any inconveniences that this breached has caused among our community. Our team will be working hard to reverse damage that has been done to our databases.
It's unconfirmed if it's been hacked or if this email is real. Only just found out about it.
Seems someone got steamed that they didn't get all 10 cards to make the Snow Globe 2013 badge.
Source