{"id":719,"date":"2015-12-22T19:17:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T19:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kittyblog.asinglelion.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2015-12-22T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T19:17:04","slug":"sanriotown-com-hacks-my-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"SanrioTown.com  Hacks my Take"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news was a buzz over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-sanrio-cyberattack-idUSKBN0U42B720151222\">alleged breach of Sanrio Town\u00a0 fan site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than three million accounts of Hello Kitty fans were left vulnerable to theft by hackers, but there is no evidence any data has been stolen, the Hong Kong-based company hosting the data said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Sanrio Digital, part-owned by Sanrio Co Ltd, the Japanese owner of the Hello Kitty brand, said it had fixed the hole after being notified by security researcher Chris Vickery that personal information of its users was accessible. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>A little perspective is needed; it is not as bad the media is making it.<\/p>\n<p>I have a account on Sanrio town.\u00a0Most any information a hacker \u00a0got from \u00a0me is general\u00a0 location, name and birth date. While\u00a0 is bad is not that all damming except trying\u00a0 to access my characters on Hello Kitty MMORPG.\u00a0 Speaking of\u00a0 Hello Kitty MMORPG most of us have multiple accounts because the game was deployed regionally, for example we need to have a SEA account (i.e. hellokitty.sg) to play\u00a0 the international servers.\u00a0 The MMORPG has fallen\u00a0 aside in popularity, many of the leaked accounts probably\u00a0 are inactive\u00a0 users.<\/p>\n<p>While bad\u00a0 I do not see it a catastrophic\u00a0 problem unlike the\u00a0 Target breach.\u00a0 There is evidence of accounts that been compromised, mostly\u00a0 spam\u00a0 post on the forum but there no evidence \u00a0\u00a0that finical data \u00a0fell into the hands of hackers or identity theft. Still there is\u00a0 a big problem of old websites and forums\u00a0 that have not been updated in years .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sanriotown.com\/kitty_news:hellokitty.com\/2015\/12\/22\/security-advisory-corrected-a-vulnerability-involving-personal-information-of-sanriotowncom-members\/\">Sanrio official response<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news was a buzz over the alleged breach of Sanrio Town\u00a0 fan site. \u201cMore than three million accounts of Hello Kitty fans were left vulnerable to theft by hackers, but there is no evidence any data has been stolen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/?p=719\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[215,214],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-data-breach","tag-sanriotown-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}