Capgemini to Pay Razer $6.5 Million for Configuration Error That Led to Data Leak

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Gaming firm Razer, headquartered in both Singapore and California, was awarded US$6.5 million (S$8.7 million) in damages by the Singapore High Court after winning a lawsuit against IT vendor Capgemini over a 2020 data leak that involved personal information and order and shipping details, of about 100,000 Razer customers.

The damages awarded to the company include 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, as well as a US$2,000 bug bounty paid to security consultant Bob Diachenko for discovering the leak.

The leak was attributed to a Capgemini employee, Argel Cabalag, who was tasked with helping Razer with a login problem on an internal IT system. Razer's case was that Cab…