Educational toy maker VTech has said 11.6 million accounts were compromised in a cyberattack last month, including those of 6.4 million children. The total number of accounts affected is nearly double ...

Back in the days before kids could be placated with a $50 Android burner phone, many a youngster was gifted a so-called “educational computer” to keep them occupied. Invariably looking like a fever ...

Our more youthful readers are fairly likely to have owned some incarnation of a VTech educational computer. From the mid-1980s and right up to the present day, VTech has been producing vaguely laptop ...

An electronic toy-maker has agreed to pay $650,000 to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it collected personal information on hundreds of thousands of children without their parents ...

Here's a fact that parents don't want to hear: the more Internet-connected devices given to children, the greater the chance hackers will spy on them. That's been highlighted by last month's attack on ...

Officers from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (Serocu) have arrested a 21-year-old man as part of a wide-ranging investigation into the hacking of applications belonging to VTech, a Hong ...