Gaming firm Razer hit by potential breach, hacker offering stolen data for $135k in crypto

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Gaming firm Razer hit by potential breach, hacker offering stolen data for $135k in crypto
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The allegedly stolen data was put up on a hacker's forum on Saturday. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE – Gaming hardware company Razer has allegedly suffered a data breach, after a seller on a hackers’ forum offered stolen data for US$100,000 in cryptocurrency on Saturday.

Checks by The Straits Times found that the data being sold included the source code and back-end access logins for Razer’s website and its products. A sample seen by ST also showed the alleged e-mail addresses of customers with virtual credit in Razer Gold accounts. The seller claimed to have 404,000 accounts, but this could not be verified.

ST has contacted Razer for more information, including whether customers’ personal information, such as their credit card details, was stolen, and if this data breach was linked to the oneIn the earlier breach, the personal and shipping information of about 100,000 Razer customers globally was leaked due to a server misconfiguration.

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