British police have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with the massive hack against electronic toy and education company VTech, which exposed the details of more than 10 million customer accounts worldwide.
According to South East Regional Organised Crime cyber unit, the Bracknell, U.K.-area man was arrested on suspicion of unauthorized access to computers and data. Police seized a number of electronic items from the man’s home.
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“We are still at the early stages of the investigation and there is still much work to be done. We will continue to work closely with our partners to identify those who commit offences and hold them to account,” said Craig Jones, head of the cybercrime unit.
Last month, VTech announced more than 10 million customer accounts – including 6.3 million children’s user profiles – were affected by the data breach. In Canada, over 237,000 adult profiles and over 316,000 kids profiles were affected.
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Data from both parents and children was exposed after its Learning Lodge app database was hacked. The Learning Lodge app – which allows customers to download apps, games and educational content to VTech products – contained customer names, email addresses, passwords, IP addresses, mailing addresses and download histories.
The database also contained kids’ profile information, including names, genders and dates of birth.
It’s also alleged the hacker obtained children’s head shots attached to gaming profiles, as well as chat logs between kids and parents.
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