A data breach affecting 46 million users occurred in the hugely popular children's online playground Animal Jam, a virtual world developed by Wildworks.
On a hacker forum, a threat actor distributed two Animal Jam datasets that they claimed were taken from well-known website hacker ShinyHunters for free.
There are about 46 million stolen user records in the two stolen databases, "game_accounts" and "users."
Despite the significant number of records obtained, Stacey claims that they represent only a small portion of all Animal Jam user accounts created since 2010.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/playwildworks
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