The immensely popular children’s online playground Animal Jam has suffered a data breach impacting 46 million accounts. This is confirmed when a hacker shared two databases belonging to Animal Jam for free on hacker forum stating it was obtained by ShinyHunters. These databases contain:
- 46 million player usernames, which are human moderated to make sure they do not contain a child’s proper name.
- 46 million SHA1 hashed passwords.
- Approximately 7 million email addresses of parents whose children registered for Animal Jam
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