'Magic: The Gathering' developer exposes data of 452,000 players

Wizards of the Coast, the developer of Magic: The Gathering, exposed user data of 452,634 players because of a security lapse. The Washington-based game maker left a file in a public Amazon Web Services storage bucket without a password or encryption, giving anyone access to the information. 

The data included 470 staff email addresses, players' names and usernames, email addresses, the date and time the accounts were made, and hashed and salted user passwords. The account data ranged from 2012 to 2018.

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