{"id":6423,"date":"2022-07-22T06:37:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T04:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/22\/neopets-security-breach-users-data-reportedly-stolen\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T06:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T04:37:27","slug":"neopets-security-breach-users-data-reportedly-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/22\/neopets-security-breach-users-data-reportedly-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Neopets security breach: users\u2019 data reportedly stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual pet site launches investigation but has not confirmed the scale of the alleged breach, amid reports hacker has taken database with user details<\/p>\n<p>The popular virtual pet website Neopets says it has launched an investigation after a hacker breached its databases, with one website claiming the personal data of up to 69 million users may have been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeopets recently became aware that customer data may have been stolen \u2026 it appears that email addresses and passwords used to access Neopets accounts may have been affected,\u201d the website said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Neopets\/status\/1549948273250766848\">statement<\/a> issued on its official Twitter account on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/22\/neopets-security-breach-users-data-reportedly-stolen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/88eca88e16cd57ecf648280fe91c68c727d30e95\/0_189_2000_1200\/master\/2000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=51a4cd116d48e96dac2f2e421d7606e0\" title=\"Neopets security breach: users\u2019 data reportedly stolen\" \/>Virtual pet site launches investigation but has not confirmed the scale of the alleged breach, amid reports hacker has taken database with user details<br \/>\nThe popular virtual pet website Neopets says it has launched an investigation after a hacker breached its databases, with one website claiming the personal data of up to 69 million users may have been stolen.<br \/>\n\u201cNeopets recently became aware that customer data may have been stolen \u2026 it appears that email addresses and passwords used to access Neopets accounts may have been affected,\u201d the website said in a statement issued on its official Twitter account on Thursday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual pet site launches investigation but has not confirmed the scale of the alleged breach, amid reports hacker has taken database with user details The popular virtual pet website Neopets says it has launched an investigation after a hacker breached its databases, with one website claiming the personal data of up to 69 million users &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/22\/neopets-security-breach-users-data-reportedly-stolen\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neopets security breach: users\u2019 data reportedly stolen<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}