Adult Accounts And Child Profiles Compromised In VTech Data Breach

As a result of a November 14 cyber attack on VTech's Learning Lodge app store, approximately 6.4 million child profiles were exposed in addition to approximately 4.9 million parent accounts. VTech is a retail toy maker that manufactures and sells traditional toys and "smart toys," such as electronic learning tools with computer capabilities. 

According to the company, the exposed children's information included name, gender, and birth date. Parent account information included name, mailing address, email address, encrypted password, IP address, download history, and account credentials (secret question and answer for password retrieval). However, the breach did not compromise personal information such as credit card information, driver's license numbers, or Social Security numbers as that type of personal identification data was not stored in the Learning Lodge app store database.