[danilocampos]

> Sorry but real mensch in tech never has its database compromised.

It's nice to imagine but that's not really how the world works. Perfection is impossible after any system reaches a certain level of complexity. The technical security implementation might have been airtight, but then a human factor compromised things in the end. Tough to say. Nonetheless, "be perfect" is not a reasonable strategy – or expectation.

> Valve should have improved its security after such an incident.

You've typed words here without really saying anything. Improved it how? Who's to say they didn't? Until and unless Valve gives us a post-mortem, we'll have no idea what the cause of the breach is. Nonetheless, it may include factors they never thought to consider.

[seunghomattyang]

I highly doubt Valve's database is more complex than Apple's or Amazon's database. You never hear about theirs being compromised to the same extent as Valve's.

[vacri]

Given Apple's propensity to stomp on any negative publicity, they could have had a dozen similar issues and never disclosed them. Hardly a fair comparison.

[sukuriant]

But I imagine if Apple's or Amazon's databases were compromised, it would quite likely be to a similar extent.

Once you can perform a select statement, extracting data becomes pretty easy.