Kids’ Info is Exposed in Toymaker Hack

VTech said the accounts of more than 4.8 million parents and the profiles of their 6.4 million kids were affected.

VTech has temporarily suspended its Learning Lodge app store and a number of related websites for “thorough security assessment and fortification”, and is working with regulators in Hong Kong for a “compliance check”.

In trying to limit the damage and ease the concern of clients, VTech released a statement saying that no financial or payment details had been stolen.

VTech’s statement said that the children’s profiles that were accessed included the user’s name, gender and birth date. Stolen data on their parents included name, mailing address, email address, secret question and answer for password retrieval, IP address, mailing address, download history and encrypted password.

In addition to eyeing a flurry of proprietary personal data, she claims she accessed tens of thousands of photos of kids and parents on VTech’s servers, many of them headshots. “Always think carefully about the information you share”. The company has not yet responded to a request for comment on this story from FoxNews.com.

VTech has reached out to every account holder in the database, via email, to alert them of the breach and the potential exposure of their account data. To complete the payment or check-out process of any downloads made on the Learning Lodge website, its customers are directed to a secure, third party payment gateway. The firm also reiterated Monday that its customer database does not contain any credit card information or personal identification data such as ID card numbers, Social Security numbers or driver’s license numbers.

The hacker expressed no plans for the data, though with the relative ease of the hack, it is clear that others could have done the same.