There are personal information, email addresses and passwords captured from Sanriotown.com, the official fansite Hello Kitty. Reported that the US tech website CSO Online, based on information from a hacker. The data were already in January are public, says Remco Pijpers, expert youth and digital media at Kennisnet.
In a hack toy manufacturer Vtech, carried out by a “ethical hacker” that potential abuse of data denounced want to ask, it became clear that security include names and addresses of some five million two hundred thousand parents and children was not foolproof.
Whether children now need to go big worry is the question says Pijpers: “With only an email address and a name you can not so much with passwords, though.” Pipers advises parents to take different passwords, to prevent a hacker can log in with the same password on other sites.
The size of the Hello Kitty-hack is not yet clear. It is not yet known whether Dutch users are affected.
‘Be careful what you share
Parents should always be careful about what they share online, advises Pijpers . “As a company that wants, you have as a parent apprehensive that you do as little as possible. No matter how careful you are, obviously, companies are not always careful. You have to assume that what you put into a database of a business stops, which possibly will be situated once on the street. “
The probability that the hackers do something with uploaded pictures and movies, according to Pijpers small, but” the idea that others pictures and movies from your children have never owned a nice idea. “
New EU Privacy Law
new privacy legislation the European Union wants to capture that companies better to deal with the protection of data of European citizens. Parents must give permission before their children create an account on social media can be tricky, says Pijpers. “But in such instances, companies thus to know everything of children, it is only too glad organizations, parents should involve and to make clear what they want to know all children.”
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