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
Animal Jam Hacked, 46M Records Roam the Dark Web https://t.co/wpptWCYNBM pic.twitter.com/znPmkeCC7U
— realCryptoExpress (@CryptoExpress_) November 12, 2020
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@Martin Jartelius, CSO , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Please prioritize getting unique credentials setup per service...."
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@Martin Jartelius, CSO , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
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@Sam Curry, Chief Security Officer, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"For customers of Animal Jam it is imperative that they all update their passwords immediately...."
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@Sam Curry, Chief Security Officer, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"For customers of Animal Jam it is imperative that they all update their passwords immediately...."
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@Boris Cipot, Senior Sales Engineer , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"One way the cybercriminals may abuse this data is to carry out a phishing attack...."
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@Boris Cipot, Senior Sales Engineer , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"One way the cybercriminals may abuse this data is to carry out a phishing attack...."
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@Saryu Nayyar, CEO, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The attackers could use the exposed email addresses to launch social engineering against the young users. ..."
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@Saryu Nayyar, CEO, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The attackers could use the exposed email addresses to launch social engineering against the young users. ..."
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@Anurag Kahol, CTO , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Incidents like this emphasise the criticality of ensuring that proper cloud security controls are implemented to defend users’ data...."
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@Chloé Messdaghi, VP of Strategy, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"All employees should have password managers and be required to use multifactor authentication...."
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@Chloé Messdaghi, VP of Strategy, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"All employees should have password managers and be required to use multifactor authentication...."
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