The researcher Peter Adkins discovered that several wireless routers produced by Netgear are affected by serious vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to access sensitive data from the network device. By exploiting the vulnerability a hacker could also extract administrator passwords, the name and access keys for the wireless networks configured on the device, and details about the device including its model, firmware version and serial number, as explained in a post published on the Full Disclosure mailing list last week.