VTech Data Breach!

A Hongkong Based company VTech, is a global manufacturer of electronics goods. VTech manufacture tables for kids and other educational gadgets too.

Recently the database of this company has been breached by the hackers. This data breach had exposed all the confidential information of 5 million adults and approximately 200,000 children. Home addresses, names, birthdays, linked parents, children and genders are included in this data.

The breached information of parents includes their names, download histories, secret questions and answers, IP Addresses and encrypted passwords. On the other hand the information related to children includes birthdates, genders and names.

On Friday VTech declares that it was a security issue on their servers due to which the data of customers had been stolen. But their experts did not tell how many customers were affected with this data breach. This attack was performed by the attackers directly on the servers of VTech where sensitive data of customers was stored. The damage due to this breach was worse than expected.The users of Learning Lodge App store provided by VTech were affected with this. This app store provides the facility to users to buy educational apps and other games.

On the official website VTech post that they are feeling regrets because thier database was not secure at that level which is required. When they came to know about this breach, they conducted an immediately security check to fix the flaws and protect the database in future from these type of attacks.

VTech also shared a report about the affected customers. US had the highest number of affected customers. 2.9 million Children profiles and 2.2 million adult profiles had been affected only from US.