Senator Presses FTC on Hackable Toys

Nextgov: Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Monday pressed the Federal Trade Commission on what the agency is doing to keep hackable children’s toys out of the marketplace.

The letter follows a report from security researcher Troy Hunt about CloudPets, an internet-connected teddy bear that allows parents to send recorded messages to their children that left data from hundreds of thousands of users easily hackable online.

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