Wildly-popular online game impresses with its response to data breach
Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of Animal Jam.It’s not a game that’s aimed at you – it’s target audience are kids between 7-12 years old.
With more than 300 million registered players, Animal Jam is a wildly popular online game which sees kids adopt their favourite animal guises and explore a brightly-coloured world.
Animal Jam likes to present itself as “safe and fun,” but this week we have learnt that that doesn’t mean it can’t ever suffer a security breach.
WildWorks, the developer of Animal Jam, has confirmed that early last month a hacker broke into its systems and stole 46 million Animal Jam records.
According to the alert posted on the Animal Jam website, the database containing the records was stolen following an attack that saw a hacker break into a third-party communications tool used by WildWorks employees, and steal an access key.
Last week the Animal Jam team became aware that stolen data had been posted on an underground hacking forum.
According to WildWorks, the database circulated by the hackers contains approximately 46 million Animal Jam records, made up as follows:
Email addresses used to create approximately 7 million Animal Jam and Animal Jam Classic parent accounts
Approximately 32 million player usernames associated with these parent accounts
Passwords associated with those user accounts, but in encrypted form
14.8M records include the birth year the player entered at account creation
23.9M records include the gender the player entered at account creation
5.7M accounts include the full birthday the player entered at account registration
12,653 of the parent accounts includ ..
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