Loud protests from Genshin Impact players, miHoYo is silent about the leaking of the player's cellphone number

Game Genshin Impact, which is famous and developed by miHoYo, is a game with a game mode Free to play Action RPG, in the open world. Genshin Impact also known for being the second IP released by the developer miHoYo After the game Honkai Impact 3, which was once famous, also became a game that was widely played when it was first released on Android September 28, 2021. However, unfortunately it is reported that the game developer Genshin Impact, was reported because it has leaked personal data belonging to gamers, namely cellphone numbers which of course access numbers are obtained because the game account is connected to the gamer’s cellphone number.

According to the report data, conducted by Vice, that his party has reported this very unfortunate incident, related to his data which was leaked over a period of several weeks. Reporting from sources Vice, through Eurogamer. That game player’s cell phone number Genshin, can be easily searched by their name, which is listed on the official website of the property Genshin by going through the password recovery system. The following is an excerpt from the statement skydtlee, as a Reddit user, stated to Vice, who was the first to report, regarding the leak of a cellphone number since October 2021, when interviewed by Motherboard, skydtlee says:

“When I was trying out some random usernames through the official genshin website, and finally I was able to see the cellphone numbers of other players. If I try to get into the website account miHoYo, then select forgot password, then anyone who enters the user username, after which an email will appear partially censored. Unfortunately, if the user also links a cellphone number to the account, it turns out that the cellphone number will not be censored at all, “added Reddit.

Even though it has been widely reported, it turns out that this case has not been resolved yet, TiltOnPlay, stated that the player Genshin Impact others, can still access cellphone numbers scattered in several forums, which are sourced from the official site owned miHoYo.

It is unfortunate, until recently parties miHoYo chose to remain silent regarding the violation of privacy belonging to the players, and until now there is still no clarity regarding the responsibility with the affected player’s data, their cellphone numbers are scattered. However, it looks like this problem has been resolved by the developer, MiHoYo not overtly.

However, if this case is not immediately handled properly by the parties miHoYo, and player numbers are not well censored. This will be very threatening to the professional streamer player, this is related to the cellphone number that the player uses to log into the game, with this incident it will provide an opportunity for anyone to be able to access that information, and risk being misused, later.

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