Personal information of over 100,000 gamers accidentally leaked by Razer
Gaming hardware vendor Razer has accidentally exposed personal information of over one lakh gamers that was available for nearly a month for hackers to exploit. Security researcher Volodymyr Diachenko first discovered that customer data on Razer's website was made publicly available on August 18 because of a server misconfiguration. Leaked data included full name, email, phone number, customer internal ID, order number, order details, billing and shipping address. After discovering the misconfiguration online, Diachenko reached out to Razer several times over the span of three weeks before receiving a reply. "My message never reached the right people inside the company and was processed by non-technical support managers for more than three weeks until the instance was secured from public access," Diachenko said in a post on LinkedIn. Read More