2015 — VTech: VTech, a Hong Kong based company notified customers…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
VTech, a Hong Kong based company notified customers of a data breach when hackers were able to gain access to childrens' photos, chat logs, children's names, genders and birthdates, account email addresses, passwords, secret questions and answers for password retrieval, IP addresses, mailing addresses and download history. The majority of the people
hacked - more than 2.2 million parents and nearly 2.9 million kids - are
in the U.S. The hacks were spread across more than a dozen countries,
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Root cause
Hacking