Penetrate VTech Toys Inc

Suspended Vtech Technologies and children's games trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after recognition of their exposure to penetrate the letter resulted in the theft of data about 4.8 million customers, including sensitive information about children and their parents.

A spokesman for the "Vtech" that "the party is not authorized to" connect to company data clients on applications Learning Lodge store its own data base on November 14 last.

The company explained that the stolen customer data included personal files of their own information, which included names, addresses, and IP addresses, IP addresses, e-mail, and records of the download, and questions and secret answers.

Vtech She added that among the stolen data information as well as passwords, but it was encrypted, and stressed that these data do not include credit card data.

The security analyst Troy Hunt has confirmed penetration, and documented a sample of the stolen data published on the Internet, which contained a wealth of customer information, including names, races, and birth dates, and addresses of children.

Hunt was found on 4.8 million e-mail address indicates that this number of customer records had been stolen, including records belonging to more than 227 thousand children, and said that the passwords were not encrypted, as the company claimed, "in Genesis."

It is noteworthy that this breakthrough is the latest in a long series of similar incidents reported in the past few years, and most recently was uncovered by TalkTalk company to provide broadband services in the UK in October / October last.

The tuk-tuk has said that a breakthrough electronically to its location on the Internet led to the theft of data pertaining to more than 4 million of its customers, in what could be one of the biggest breakthroughs of personal information in the country.

But in recent times has been to highlight the children's privacy with respect to alleged violations connected to the Internet to play children, including the game Barbie, says that researchers in the field of security that he can penetrate and convert them into control device.

Hunt says: "Despite the recurrence of such incidents, but the companies did not realize the message of which, he took security seriously something needs to be done before the violations, and not something you say after that to appease the people."