Kids gaming website Animal Jam breached after miscreants spot private AWS key on pwned Slack channel
Tens of millions of usernames and passwords go walkies amid claims of decryption Updated Child-friendly games website Animal Jam suffered a hack that exposed 46 million user records after a staff Slack channel was compromised by malicious people who discovered a private AWS key.…
Date: 2020-11-12
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