Database leak exposes 3.3 million Hello Kitty fans
http://www.csoonline.com/article/3017171/security/database-leak-exposes-3-3-million-hello-kitty-fans.html
A database for sanriotown.com, the official online community for
Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters, has been discovered
online by researcher Chris Vickery. The database houses 3.3
million accounts and has ties to a number of other Hello Kitty
portals. Vickery contacted Salted Hash and Databreaches.net
about the leaked data Saturday evening. The records exposed
include first and last names, birthday (encoded, but easily
reversible Vickery said), gender, country of origin, email
addresses, unsalted SHA-1 password hashes, password hint
questions, their corresponding answers, and other data points
that appear to be website related.
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Will "My Little Pony" be next?
--Lauren--
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