A database for the Hello Kitty community sanriotown.com containing 3.3 million accounts has been discovered online in an apparent breach .
According to CSO Online , researcher Chris Vickery discovered the breach :
The records exposed include first and last names , natal day ( encode , but well two-sided Vickery aver ) , gender , body politic of origin , email reference , unseasoned SHA-1 password hashes , password hint questions , their jibe answers , and other data point points that appear to be website come to .
Information from other Hello Kitty - related web site hellokitty.com ; hellokitty.com.sg ; hellokitty.com.my ; hellokitty.in.th ; and mymelody.com have also been discover online . Users are advised to change their login credentials , particularly if the same info is shared between accounts on other sites .
Most worrisome about this falling out is the number of accounts that are in all probability possess by children .
Image credit : N Azlin Sha/ Shuttershock
[ CSO ]
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