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HackingTechnologyInformationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)CredentialsAuthenticationLocationBehaviorLowActive

VTech Electronics North America, LLC

bd_71b811f35fd7fd65 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

Nov 24, 2015

Filed

Dec 22, 2015

To disclose

28 days

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for VTech Electronics North America, LLC →

VTech Electronics North America, LLC disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed customer data on its Learning Lodge app store database on November 14, 2015. The company discovered the incident on November 24, 2015. Affected data included names, email addresses, encrypted passwords, secret questions/answers, IP addresses, mailing addresses, and download history. No credit card, banking, or government ID data was involved. VTech conducted an investigation and implemented defensive measures.

Incident timeline

undetected · 10 days
discovery → filing · 28 days

Nov 14, 2015

Begins

Nov 24, 2015

Discovered

Dec 22, 2015

Filed

vs. sector median

7 wks faster

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.