Gaming firm Razer awarded US$6.5 million in damages over IT vendor data leak

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SINGAPORE — Gaming firm Razer was awarded US$6.5 million (S$8.7 million) in damages by the High Court on Friday (Dec 9) after winning a lawsuit against IT vendor Capgemini over a data leak.

The data leak in 2020 involved personal information, as well as order and shipping details, of about 100,000 Razer customers.

The damages awarded to the company included US$6.1 million in loss of profits from Razer's e-commerce platform, about US$320,400 for engaging a law firm, US$60,000 for paying an information technology forensic expert to investigate the matter, and US$2,000 to Mr Diachenko for discovering the leak. The issue began in June 2020 when a Capgemini employee, Argel Cabalag, was tasked with helping Razer with a login problem on an internal IT system.

Capgemini, a French multinational company, initially said in its defence that Mr Cabalag was not responsible for the misconfiguration.

 

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