“Human error” at Riot Games meant that a small group of players received account data not associated with their own accounts. The issue was first flagged by a player on the League of Legends subreddit in a post last night.
tates that the player initially requested his account data from Riot around a month ago. Upon prompting the company for the data again after some time had passed, they received an zip file containing information on someone else’s account. As well as in-game information like chat and report logs, player data also contains email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and IP addresses used to log into the game over the past four months.
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Riot has since responded to the . Player support agent Riot Westbroke further down the thread saying that Riot had “temporarily paused manual reviews of data requests” pending an investigation. A few hours later, that thread was updated to provide more context and information.
That update stated that “normally, data requests like these are handled by an automated system. In this case it was handled manually, and through human error the wrong file was sent to the wrong player.”
“Most importantly, we’ve gone through every other request that was answered manually and can confirm this was an incredibly rare incident.” Riot stated that they have individually contacted the few players affected.