VTech Hack Exposes 4.8 Million Customers
The toy company and electronic technology specialist VTech has confirmed the security breach suffered, by November 14, 2015, the Learning Lodge app store customer database, where users can download applications, games and other educational content related with VTech products . Among the filtered data would be email addresses, names and addresses, but also include information from children as name, gender, birth date and images of children.
References:
- 27/11/2015 motherboard.vice.com One of the Largest Hacks Yet Exposes Data on Hundreds of Thousands of Kids
- 28/11/2015 troyhunt.com When children are breached – inside the massive VTech hack
- 30/11/2015 vtech.com Data Breach on VTech Learning Lodge
- 01/12/2015 reuters.com U.S. states probe VTech hack, experts warn of more attacks
- 02/12/2015 elespanol.com El escándalo de los juguetes espía
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