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21-Year-Old British Man Arrested In Connection With VTech Hack (ibtimes.co.uk)
Ewan Palmer writes: A man has been arrested in connection with the alleged hacking of electronic toy manufacturer VTech which affected millions worldwide. The 21-year-old was arrested in Berkshire, South East England, on suspicion of unauthorized access to computers to facilitate the commission of an offence and suspicion of causing a computer to perform function to secure/enable unauthorized access to a program/data following the data breach in November.
From the BBC's coverage of the arrest: In the attack, servers used to support VTech's Learning Lodge app were compromised. ... The Learning Lodge database logged names, email addresses, encrypted passwords, IP (internet protocol) numbers and other personal data. Some of the information was about children including names, dates of birth and gender.
No credit card data was stored in the compromised database.
Details on customers from all over world, including the US, UK, France and China, were taken.
Some of the data is believed to have been posted briefly online before being removed.
When details about the extent of the data loss became known security expert Troy Hunt said he had "run out of superlatives to even describe how bad" it was.
I dread to think what could happen to some of the information about those kids and who might use it to target youngsters if he's sold it. VTech have been criminally negligent here too so one would hope some heads role, but this little turd really deserves the book thrown at him.
Am I alone in this uneasy feeling about so-called security pundits putting their breathlessness on display over some stupid, embarrasing and perhaps sometimes obnoxious hoaxes -- but far from "tragic", "catastrophic" or whatever superlatives?
C'mon. Tragic is that there are still people starving out there. Catastrophic is what's going on in Syria at the moment while the "developed countries" is quabbling in their disgusting powerplay over whatever.
But some compromised servers? Cool down, folks.
He'll rat out on all of his "anonymous" accomplices. Those cowardly nerds always do.
When details about the extent of the data loss became known security expert Troy Hunt said he had "run out of superlatives to even describe how bad" it was.
He should have invented a new word, such as badest.
"The breach was the badest I've ever seen."
Summation 2
The police go for the low hanging fruit and make a big song and dance about it.
... embarrassing a large corporation by showing how easy it was to bypass security and releasing the proof to the media.
We can't have large corporations' money flows placed at risk now.....
that right there requires a full scale assault on the perpetrators and 100 years of jail time. Think of the children, said the person who required the kids names be in the db and the parents who wilfully gave that info out to access a toy.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
From reading posts like "dudez check out www.haxor.ro/sickit2theman.vba" on the twitbooks.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
The real scandal was not the fact that a group of paedophiles had brown instead of white skin, it was that the social services allowed it to happen because they didn't want to interfere with the "human rights" of twelve year olds to have sex.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it