{"id":841,"date":"2015-12-20T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraud.flywheelsites.com\/vtech_breach\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:31:50","slug":"vtech_breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/vtech_breach\/","title":{"rendered":"vTech breach &#8211; Fraud.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"vtech-crop.jpg\" alt=\"vtech-crop.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A massive November 2015 breach at toymaker VTech raised major concerns about the level of data security at providers of the new generation of connected toys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--content_break--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Announced on:<\/strong>\u00a0November 30, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of breach:<\/strong>\u00a0In mid-November, an unauthorized party accessed VTech customer data housed in its Learning Lodge app store database. Learning Lodge is a place where customers download apps, learning games, e-books, and other educational content for their VTech products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information exposed:<\/strong>\u00a0Hackers\u00a0retrieved adults\u2019 profile information, including names, email addresses and passwords. They also obtained secret questions and answers for password retrieval, I.P. addresses, mailing addresses, and download histories. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/01\/business\/security-breach-at-toy-maker-vtech-includes-data-on-children.html?_r=0\">More from <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>.)\u00a0<span>The compromised database also contained the names, gender and birth dates of children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected customers:<\/strong>\u00a0The major breach\u00a0<span>exposed personal data for 12 million people, including 6.4 million minors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Official information from vTech:<\/strong>\u00a0https:\/\/www.vtech.com\/en\/press_release\/2015\/data-breach-on-vtech-learning-lodge-update\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/landing\/experian-data-breach-faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 2015 update:<\/strong>\u00a0Man arrested in vTech hacking attack (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmagazineuk.com\/police-arrest-21-year-old-british-man-over-vtech-attack\/article\/459793\/\">SC Magazine UK<\/a>)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NULL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}