Motherboard reports the personal information of nearly 5 million parents and more than 200,000 children has been exposed in a breach of Chinese company VTech. Compromised data includes names, email addresses, passwords and home addresses of the parents as well as first names, genders and birthdays of the children. The hacker supplied Motherboard with the data, and security pro Troy Hunt confirmed its validity. “We were not aware of this unauthorized access until you alerted us,” a VTech spokesperson said. The hacker said there are no plans for the exposed data and claims to have only shared it with the publication. In a blog post, Hunt explained how the exposed data could connect children to their parents’ addresses, adding, “I start to run out of superlatives to even describe how bad that is.” Meanwhile, ZDNet revisits the Target hack two years later, and Experian has released its third annual Data Breach Industry Forecast.
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