The developer of famous online playground Animal Jam has suffered a data breach exposing tens of millions of users’ data, especially children.
Animal Jam is an online playground for children developed by the Utah-based WildWorks. It is targeted towards children between 7 and 11 years of age and boasts over 300 million animal avatars created by kids.
The virtual playground receives registration from a new user every 1.4 seconds. It has 3.3 million monthly active members and over 130 million registered players.
Now, Animal Jam has suffered a data breach in which millions of user accounts have been leaked. A threat actor has already leaked the stolen database on a hacker forum, stating that they got them from well-known hacker ShinyHunters.
The databases contain around 50 million stolen records of the Animal Jam users. The threat actor has shared a partial database, which shows approx. 7 million records of children or their parents. An analysis of the timestamps on these records reveals that the database was stolen and dumped last month.
Here’s what the hacker had to say about the partial database leak:
WildWorks, on the other hand, has acknowledged the breach and shared information about the breach. Its CEO Clary Stacey stated that the threat actors compromise Wild Works’ Slack server to obtain the AWS keys. The company quickly addressed the data breach as soon as it occurred. However, they were unaware of the fact that some data was stolen.
Further investigation revealed that the 50 million ..
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