{"id":332,"date":"2015-12-01T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/12\/01\/interim-data-breach-kid-data-and-pictures-hacked\/"},"modified":"2015-12-01T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:53:00","slug":"interim-data-breach-kid-data-and-pictures-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/interim-data-breach-kid-data-and-pictures-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERIM: Data Breach. Kid data and pictures hacked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VTech, a manufacturer of electronic educational gadgets for kids, has been hacked.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers took:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>headshots of kids &amp; parents<\/li>\n<li>chat logs<\/li>\n<li>audio files of kids<\/li>\n<li>names of kids &amp; parents<\/li>\n<li>email addresses<\/li>\n<li>home addresses<\/li>\n<li>birthdays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Remedies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A hacker contacted a tech company to expose VTECH&#8217;s unsecured data storage.<\/li>\n<li>VTECH took down their portals that allowed for data storage until a resolution can be reached.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/hacker-obtained-childrens-headshots-and-chatlogs-from-toymaker-vtech?wpmm=1&amp;wpisrc=nl_daily202\">Motherboard |\u00a0Hacker Obtained Children&#8217;s Headshots and Chatlogs From Toymaker VTech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/261475-educational-app-store-hack-reported-to-expose-200000-children\">The Hill |\u00a0Toy maker hack exposes data on 200K children<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/11\/30\/vtech-hack-kids-data\/#7PFNKaQQjEq1\">Mashable |\u00a0The VTech data breach shows kids are just as vulnerable to hacking<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VTech, a manufacturer of electronic educational gadgets for kids, has been hacked.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers took:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>headshots of kids &amp; parents<\/li>\n<li>chat logs<\/li>\n<li>audio files of kids<\/li>\n<li>names of kids &amp; parents<\/li>\n<li>email addresses<\/li>\n<li>home addresses<\/li>\n<li>birthdays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Remedies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A hacker contacted a tech company to expose VTECH&#8217;s unsecured data storage.<\/li>\n<li>VTECH took down their portals that allowed for data storage until a resolution can be reached.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/hacker-obtained-childrens-headshots-and-chatlogs-from-toymaker-vtech?wpmm=1&amp;wpisrc=nl_daily202\">Motherboard |\u00a0Hacker Obtained Children&#8217;s Headshots and Chatlogs From Toymaker&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5,2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-legislative-issue","category-data-encryption","category-data-privacy","category-student-data-privacy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}