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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.
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.