The news was a buzz over the alleged breach of Sanrio Town fan site.
“More 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.
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. “
A little perspective is needed; it is not as bad the media is making it.
I have a account on Sanrio town. Most any information a hacker got from me is general location, name and birth date. While is bad is not that all damming except trying to access my characters on Hello Kitty MMORPG. Speaking of 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 the international servers. The MMORPG has fallen aside in popularity, many of the leaked accounts probably are inactive users.
While bad I do not see it a catastrophic problem unlike the Target breach. There is evidence of accounts that been compromised, mostly spam post on the forum but there no evidence that finical data fell into the hands of hackers or identity theft. Still there is a big problem of old websites and forums that have not been updated in years .