The website of the E3 video game fair, held in Los Angeles (United States), has accidentally made public a database that included the phone numbers and addresses of the journalists, youtubers and video game streamers who attended the Last edition of the event.

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), which runs the event, had created a database with the names, addresses, emails and phone numbers of more than 2,000 attendees on a public web page. Sophia Narwitz, a videogame journalist and youtuber, discovered a copy of the list in various Internet forums used by trolls.

Narwitz posted a video on YouTube last week in which he revealed the existence of this public list. According to a tweet thread published by youtuber this week, he has received numerous criticisms from the media for calling attention to this information, although he tried to alert ESA of the leak beforehand.

Several journalists have informed BuzzFeed that they have already received 'strange' phone calls late in the morning and the forums in which the lists are published have highlighted obscene comments and disqualifications such as "they were looking for him to be 'journalists of video games' ".

The youtuber has lamented the abuses that those involved like her can suffer and has blamed the "impressive incompetence of the ESA", since "the file was not password protected, it was open for anyone to download it with a single click".

ESA contacted the attendees of the last edition of the E3 via email, last week, including the Kotaku media, where they explained that they had taken "immediate steps to remove the files" and had received confirmation, that (since Monday) "all files are in the process of being removed or have already been removed from third-party sites."

They also added that they were working with experts to "determine what is causing the situation and improve their security measures."

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