'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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‘Magic: The Gathering’ to get a movie, gets a writer from ‘Game of Thrones’

We’re getting one more game turned movie in the future in the form of Magic: The Gathering. Fox said the script is only in its first draft at the moment and there is no director yet but it has gained a writer from the Game of Thrones named Bryan Cogman. While his name isn’t that familiar to some, he has been working on the show since season one. He has written “The Laws of Gods and Men” episode where Tyrion Lannister was on trial.

Source: The Verge