Remember the good old days, when a rotary phone was an oddity and princess phones all the rage? The digital sounds made by a push-button phone were mind-blowing. Little did we know what chaos would follow, ushering in a digital age that would strip the innocence right off of childhood, leaving teddy bears and other stuffed animals in the ditch as the bad guys figured out how to weaponize that plush menagerie that comforted us. Yes, that probably sounds hyperbolic and melodramatic, but they’ve gone after the Webkinz, people, and that’s just not right.
To be clear, none of it is right, but ZDNet is reporting that hackers recently found their way into the Webkinz database, and the hopes and dreams of Little Johnny and Little Susie were made available on the dark web. Well, their usernames and passwords were leaked through a forum on the dark web. Hackers also accessed hashed versions of parents’ email addresses, though that data hasn’t been leaked yet. Webkinz: The Gift that keeps on giving.
Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?
The variety of data targeted by clever hackers should no longer surprise us. In their world, which is an extension of our world, nothing is off-limits, nothing is sacred. Let’s assume you feel differently about your network and data. Let’s assume you consider your property, your files, your ability to move freely through the streams of commerce sacred. Smart money would agree with that assumption. But you don’t get what you expect, you get what you inspect, and getting a trusted set of eyes to perform that inspection might help you sleep at night, like your favorite stuffed animal when you were a kid.
Call ICS today, and let’s take a look before they come for your teddy bear.
