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komsw62 7 Oct @ 2:20pm

Payment pending

Today I added my card information and made a payment of $5 to my Steam account to make a $2.99 purchase On the first page it said that my payment was declined by my creditor I checked the account and it said the payment was pending Then when I went on to another page on steam it also said the payment was pending So what I want to know is how long am I going to have to sit here and wait for my payment to go through and why are there two different pages giving me two different statements about the same thing Can somebody explain this I would like it if Steam would but there's no way to get a hold of him

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sceior 7 Oct @ 3:06pm

Apparently, Steam has been under a bot attack for the past 5+ hours. That may be the reason your payment is still pending. Many of us are not able to access our games right now because they aren't syncing up. We just need to be patient and hopefully Steam will be up and running soon.

✨Saint✨ 7 Oct @ 3:12pm

From Reddit:

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-" A summary of whats happening for everyone:

The servers using TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) was carpet bombed (multiple servers across the globe were hit) to replicate traffic that seemed almost legitimate. The bandwidth reached by the traffic was 29.69 Tbps which exceeds the previous record of 22.2 Tbps.

It was likely caused by the Aisuru botnet which targets IoT devices which comprise of any device that is connected to the internet. A botnet is a network of numerous malware infected devices directed for purposes like DDoS attacks.

This is NOT a data breach for anyone wondering. Our data should be secure unless Valve confirms otherwise.

This is not just for Steam but also for Epic Games, Riot, PSN, OpenAI, and more.