VTech Says Nearly 4.9M Parent Accounts, 6.4M Kid Profiles Affected by Breach

Nearly 4.9 million customer or parent accounts and about 6.4 million related kid profiles worldwide were affected by the VTech data breach (see 1511300026), said the supplier of electronic learning toys Tuesday in an updated FAQ about the incident. The company said its Learning Lodge app store customer database was affected and its Kid Connect servers were accessed. "Kid profiles unlike account profiles only include name, gender and birthdate," the company said. VTech also listed the number of parent accounts and child profiles affected across 12 countries, the U.K., Latin America and a section called "Others." In the U.S., more than 2.2 million parent accounts and nearly 2.9 million child profiles were affected, followed by France where about 870,000 parent accounts and 1.2 million child profiles were breached. VTech also said there's no evidence any compromised data has been used or distributed criminally. It said "appointed data security legal specialists" are in the process of "liaising with local authorities" in the investigation.