Interesting that tackers never tripped an alarm. Perhaps because there were none?
https://gizmodo.com/neopets-hackers-virtual-pets-bitcoin-1849485229
The Hackers Who Breached Neopets Were Inside Its IT Systems for 18 Months
Neopets, the company that sells virtual pets to tweenagers (and also a weird amount of adults), suffered a pretty devastating data breach earlier this year, but a recent update seems to show it was far worse than we previously thought.
In July, the company announced that it had been hacked and that data on its members—believed to be about 69 million people—had potentially been accessed. This week, the company divulged new details about the incident, revealing that, among other things, the cybercriminals were able to linger inside its corporate IT systems for about 18 months.
An update published Monday shows that, from January 3, 2021 until July 19, 2022, the cybercriminals had access to member user data. What kind of data? It would appear to be pretty much everything. The update reads:
After our investigation, we have determined that for past and present Neopets players, affected information may include the data provided when registering for or playing Neopets, including name, email address, username, date of birth, gender, IP address, Neopets PIN, hashed password, as well as data about a player’s pet, game play, and other information provided to Neopets. For players that played prior to 2015, the information also could have included non-hashed, but inactive, passwords.
Resource.
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Launches New Legal Information Resource
AALL: “The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is offering a new resource for information professionals—law librarians, legal information professionals , and public librarians—and members of the public to easily locate online primary legal materials. The new Online Legal Information Resources (OLIR) includes information for U.S. states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, the U.S. Federal Government, and Canada. Developed by the AALL Advancing Access to Justice Special Committee the OLIR includes links to session laws, statutory codes, registers, administrative codes, and court opinions. To help users easily identify reliable online sources, the OLIR contains information about whether the legal materials are official, authentic, preserved, and copyrighted. The OLIR also includes contact information for state and local public law libraries, covering whether services to incarcerated people are provided.”
I don’t have the talent of a Mozart or even a Weird Al Yankovic, but I might try this genre…
Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit
… As it turns out, there are quite a few songs that will fill Alexa requests for the whole gamut of things a kindergartener might dream up: poop, diapers, dog poop, stinky butt, farts.
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