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Omaha Steve

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Mon Nov 30, 2015, 03:26 PM Nov 2015

Info on 5 million VTech customers and kids exposed in breach

Source: AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Kid's technology maker VTech says the personal information of about 5 million of its customers and their children may have been stolen by hackers.

The Hong Kong-based company disclosed the breach of a customer database late last week, but didn't say how many people could be affected until Monday.

The affected database includes the names, birthdates and genders of child users.

It also includes adult user information including names, email addresses, passwords, secret questions and answers for password retrieval, IP addresses, mailing addresses and download histories.

FULL story at link.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/191075ade3624d6cba1d4be0de6d12b4/info-5-million-vtech-customers-and-kids-exposed-breach

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