VTech data breach

The VTech breach happened on November 13, 2015 and exposed 4,833,678 accounts. 11 kinds of data were exposed.

Overview

Site

vtechda.com

Breach date

November 13, 2015

Recorded on

November 25, 2015

Accounts exposed

4,833,678

Exposed data

Dates of birth, Email addresses, Family members' names, Genders, IP addresses, Names, Passwords, Physical addresses, Security questions and answers, Usernames, Website activity

Risk score

89 out of 100

Risk based on the exposed data

This breach scores 89 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Security questions and answers, Physical addresses.

Breaches from the same period

• MajorGeeks (2015-11-15, 269,548 accounts)
• Comcast (2015-11-08, 616,882 accounts)
• Ancestry (2015-11-07, 297,806 accounts)

What affected users should do

• Change your VTech password, and also change it on any other service where you used the same password. You can create a new one with the password generator.
• Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
• Answers to security questions were exposed, so change the answers on any service that uses the same questions.

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