Razer accidentally leaked the personal information of over 100,000 accounts

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Addresses and phone numbers, but no credit card information was exposed.

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According to a report published by cyber security consultant Volodymyr Diachenko on LinkedIn (via The Verge), the personal data from an estimated 100,000 accounts has been exposed since August 18. Diachenko says he immediately notified Razer of the breach, but non-technical support staff handled the issue for a further three weeks until appropriate staff resolved the problem on September 9.

Razer confirmed Diachenko's report to PC Gamer with the following statement:

"We were made aware by a security researcher of a server misconfiguration that potentially exposed order details, customer, and shipping information. No sensitive data such as credit card numbers or passwords was exposed. The server misconfiguration was fixed on the 9th September, prior to the lapse being made public.

Customers who have questions about this can reach out to DPO@razer.com."