Personal Data Leak Monitor

VTech data breach

4.83M accounts from VTech (vtechda.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
November 13, 2015
Accounts
4,833,678
Added to the database
November 25, 2015

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What leaked

Dates of birthEmail addressesFamily members' namesGendersIP addressesNamesPasswordsPhysical addressesSecurity questions and answersUsernamesWebsite activity

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. If your birthday is a PIN, kindly change it
  3. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service
  4. Expect scam emails that use your real name
  5. Be careful with unexpected mail or visitors

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About this breach

In November 2015, hackers extracted more than 4.8 million parents' and 227k children's accounts from VTech's Learning Lodge website. The Hong Kong company produces learning products for children including software sold via the compromised website. The data breach exposed extensive personal details including home addresses, security questions and answers and passwords stored as weak MD5 hashes. Furthermore, children's details including names, ages, genders and associations to their parents' records were also exposed.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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