Hacked Toy Company VTech: Let Us Monitor Your House
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacked-toy-company-vtech-let-us-monitor-your-house
Last year, an anonymous hacker broke into the systems of VTech,
a company that makes internet-connected toys, tablets and baby
monitors. The hacker was able to access the personal data of
more than 6 million kids, as well as more than 4 million
parents, including tens of thousand of pictures taken with the
company's Kid Connect app, which encourages children and parents
to take selfies and chat online. Less than two months later,
VTech is now launching a whole suite of new internet-connected
devices designed to monitor your house--and the company is
promising that this time, it won't leave the personal data of
its customers exposed to hackers.
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"Fool me once, shame on you -- fool me twice, shame on me."
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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