Database containing details of nearly half a million gamers exposed in security lapse

guest · Nov 17, 2019

Database containing details of nearly half a million gamers exposed in security lapse
November 17, 2019
https://betanews.com/2019/11/17/magic-the-gathering-security-lapse/

Wizards of the Coast -- publisher of, among other titles, Magic: The Gathering -- has confirmed a security incident that exposed information relating to 452,634 players.

The company left a backup database containing gamer information in a public Amazon Web Services storage bucket where it was accessible from early September. Specifically, the database was used to house data relating to the game's online portal, Magic: The Gathering Arena.
In the case of company employees, only email addresses were exposed, but for 452,634 players, name, usernames, email addresses and other data were included.

As TechCrunch reports, the exposed database was discovered by UK-based security firm Fidus Information Security. Although the company got in touch with Wizards of the Coast about the publicly accessible database, it was not until TechCrunch made contact that it was taken offline.
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A spokesperson for the company issued a statement saying:

"[...] We removed the database file from our server and commenced an investigation to determine the scope of the incident.
We believe that this was an isolated incident and we have no reason to believe that any malicious use has been made of the data.[...]"
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