LONDON — Police in the U.K. say they’ve made an arrest in the hacking of kids’ technology maker VTech, which compromised the personal information of more than 6 million children worldwide.
The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit, a regional task force made up of a handful of English police departments, says its cybercrime unit arrested a 21-year-old man on hacking-related charges Tuesday in Bracknell, a town about 30 miles west of London.
Police seized electronic items that will be examined by a cybercrime forensics unit. Craig Jones, who heads the cybercrime unit, said the investigation remains in its early stages and much work needs to be done.
VTech officials didn’t return e-mails seeking comment.
The November hacking of Hong Kong-based VTech Holdings Ltd.’s Learning Lodge database compromised the profiles of 6.4 million kids around the world, along with the 4.9 million parent accounts that they were connected to.
