Smart teddy bears involved in contentious data breach

Posted online February 28, 2017 | 12:31 pm

CloudPets, a line of stuffed animals that can receive and send voice messages from children and parents, have been involved in a breach affecting more than 800,000 user accounts, according to IDG News Service.

Security researcher Troy Hunt, who tracks data breaches, posted about the incident on Monday. He claims hackers accessed a CloudPets database containing email addresses and hashed passwords. They even sought to ransom the information in January, Hunt says.

The company behind the products, Spiral Toys, denies a hack occurred.

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