Hack Notice

Hack Notice: VTech

VTech

Description
VTech, a Hong Kong based fellowship notified customers of a data plug 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 overspread across more than a dozen countries, including France, the U.K. and Germany.More information: http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/30/technology/vtech-hack-kids/

About HackNotice and VTech

HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients. HackNotice monitors data streams related to breaches, leaks, and hacks and VTech was reported by one of those streams. HackNotice may also have the breach date, hack date, the hacker responsible, the hacked industry, the hacked location, and any other parts of the hack, breach, or leak that HackNotice can report on for the consumers of our product.

If you are a user of VTech their products, services, websites, or applications and you were a client of HackNotice, monitoring for VTech you may have been alerted to this report about VTech . HackNotice is a service that provides data, information, and monitoring that helps our clients recover from and remediate data breaches, hacks, and leaks of their personal information. HackNotice provides a service that helps our clients know what to do about a hack, breach, or leak of their information.

If VTech had a transgress of consumer data or a data leak, then there may live additional actions that our clients should have to protect their digital identity. Data breaches, hacks, and leaks often guide to and cause identity theft, account have overs, ransomware, spyware, extortion, and malware. account takeovers are often caused by credential reuse, word reuse, easily guessed passwords, and are facilitated by the sharing of billions of credentials and other customer information through data leaks, as the direct result of data breaches and hacks.

HackNotice monitors trends in publically available data that indicates tens of thousands of data breaches each year, along with billions of records from data leaks each year. On behalf of our clients, HackNotice works to monitor for hacks that trail to lower client certificate and digital identities that have been exposed and should live considered vulnerable to attack. HackNotice works with clients to identify the extent that digital identities make been exposed and provides remediation suggestions for how to handle each type of exposure.

HackNotice monitors the hacker community, which is a network of individuals that share data breaches, hacks, leaks, malware, spyware, ransomware, and many other tools that are often used for financial fraud, account make overs, and further breaches and hacks. HackNotice monitors the hacker community specifically for breaches, hacks, and data leaks that ache consumers. HackNotice applies industry specific knowledge and advanced surety practices to monitor for trends that designate breaches, hacks, and exposed digital identities.

HackNotice also enables clients to share hack notices with their friend, family, and collogues to help increase awareness around alleged hacks, breaches, or data leaks. HackNotice works to provide clients with sharable reports to help increase the security of our clients personal network. The surety of the people that our clients interact with directly impacts the level of security of our clients. Increased exposure to accounts that have been taken over by hackers leads to further account take overs through phishing, malware, and other attach techniques.

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