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not even kids toys are safe from hackers I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update if your kid owns a VTech learning toy a hacker could know their names birthdays and where they live the App Store for v-tex Learning Lodge was breached a little over two weeks ago and according to a statement from VTech this exposed the names emails passwords mailing addresses and download history for five million accounts but it goes way beyond that a hacker also was able to pull up the photos taken of kids and their parents along with chats and audio recordings made with the kid connect service that discovery comes from motherboard which was the first to report on the hack motherboard has been talking with the hacker involved who provided the proof the hack data also includes names gender and birthdays of more than two hundred thousand kids the hacker reportedly found tens of thousands of photos on VTech servers and says there are no plans to publish or sell the data motherboard consulted with a cybersecurity expert on the breach data and it appears that VTech did not do enough to encrypt customer data or passwords to guard it from hackers VTech sells tons of kids learning toys like tablets phones and even smartwatches it also sells baby monitors when you have a company as big as VTech not doing the basics when it comes to security and protecting your data it should show you we have a huge cyber security problem on our hands companies need to care to invest in security before they get hacked not after so what's more worrisome than your kids toys getting hacked how about flying delivery drones swarming the skies because it's a future Amazon believes strongly in and the company has released a video showing off a new design for drones that can get a package to your door in 30 minutes or less this prototype drone for prime air loads a shoebox size package from underneath the craft it's lifted into its belly and then it's sent flying off to your home now what you're seeing here is actual footage from a working prototype amazon says there are sensors onboard the drone to prevent the craft from hitting other things in the sky when the Prof gets near you get an alert to make sure that your yard is clear for landing and you have to put out a big plastic Amazon logo landing base so the drone knows where to drop your package Amazon first started talking about delivery drones during the holiday shopping season of 2013 but this project will not be taking off in the real world until the US Federal Aviation Administration says rules on how to handle commercial unmanned aircraft and personally I'm more curious to learn how Amazon plans to deal with neighbors that will shoot these drones out of the sky because you know that's gonna happen that's it for this tech news update and there's more as cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Gary