VTech, a company that makes toy tablets and laptops for kids, lost tons of personal information for kids and parents (including home addresses) in a public data breach. Earlier this year, security researcher Troy Hunt found that CloudPets, a line of toys that allows you to send and receive voice recordings, had left their entire database of 2 million recordings-of children and parents-open to the internet, for anyone to grab. You can imagine the kind of trouble someone standing outside your house could cause by talking to your child through their toy.Īnd this is just the most recent news story on the subject. With a simple Bluetooth trick, an attacker would merely need to connect to the device with their phone, after which point they could-depending on the toy-control its motion, send an audio file, or even type in a message that the toy would speak out loud to the child. The vulnerable toys included the Furby Connect, i-Que Intelligent Robot, Toy-Fi Teddy, and CloudPets. ![]() Technology site Which? found that four out of seven tested smart toys could be easily hacked over Bluetooth, because they just don’t take the necessary steps to secure the connection.
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