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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 10:31:38 -0700

Danny Palmer, ZDNet, 7 Aug 2019
Researchers also found security holes that gave away personal data and credit card information of children's parents. https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-kids-tablet-patched-after-flaws-left-personal-data-vulnerable/

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Security vulnerabilities in a popular children's tablet could have allowed attackers to collect sensitive information about its young users, as well as enabling hackers to steal their parents' names, address and credit card details.

In addition to this, researchers found that the Pet Chat protocol didn't require any authentication between devices, meaning anyone running Pet Chat within 100ft of a user could send messages to the child's device, albeit in the set phrases allowed by Pet Chat, something that could potentially put the child at risk.


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