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The news comes at the worst time when its education products are popular every Christmas. The group of electronic toys educational VTech Holdings announced Monday that five million customer accounts and profiles of children around the world have been affected by an attack by hackers on its online products, or about 5% of its catalog.
In France, 868,000 accounts are parents who have leaked and approximately 1 million child profiles after the count VTech.
The attack was carried out on November 14th via the online shop “Learning Lodge” that allows to buy and download games and applications for computers and tablets of Hong Kong’s manufacturer. This download platform is suspended as part of an investigation into the security breaches.
In this Database include “information on children, such as name, gender and birth date” as well as the more detailed regarding adult clients who opened accounts’ name, email address, password, security question and answer to recover the password, IP address, mailing address and download history, “said VTech in a statement issued emergency after revelations in the American press.
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According to the specialized website Motherboard, data leakage goes further He quoted Monday a suspected pirate claiming to have obtained thousands of photos of children and parents concerned by the data theft. According to the hacker who has not sold these data, passwords were encrypted well but with a totally obsolete algorithm.
The hacker was also able to capture messages exchanged in writing between parents and children through the shelves of the group, and even audio messages, he told the site, to support registration.
VTech says that no banking data could be subtracted SINCE ‘they are not stored on that.
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The concerned parents can find out if their account has been compromised by entering the email address used on the Haveibeenpwned.com specialized site. For its part, VTech has warned its customers by email on 27 November and has set up an address for parents with questions: explora_park@vtech.com
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