Razer investigates potential breach involving its digital wallet
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Heres how to find out Headquartered in Singapore and California, the company said it was alerted on Sunday to the potential breach impacting Razer Gold, which credits can be used to purchase games and in-games features for more than 42,000 titles. A post surfaced on a hacker forum on Saturday claiming to have stolen a multitude of data, including source codes, encryption keys, backend access logins, and database for "Razer.com and its products". Also: Cybersecurity 101: Protect your privacy from hackers, spies, and the government Phillip Ivancic, Synopsys Software Integrity Groups Asia-Pacific head of solutions strategy, noted that the alleged breach involved source code, which underscored an important but "often overlooked" area of concern. Access to source code enables cybercriminals to establish an intimate understanding of any underlying vulnerabilities, providing them with the information they need to create malicious attacks to exploit these software holes, he added. Razer suffered a data breach in 2020 when an employee of its IT vendor Capgemini was found to have misconfigured the implementation of an ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack for the gaming company, disabling the security settings.