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The
South East Regional Organised Crime cyber unit said in a
statement on Tuesday that it had a arrested a Bracknell man on
suspicion of unauthorized access to computers and data. The
town, located west of London, is home to numerous tech firms.
"We are still at the early stages of the investigation and there
is still much work to be done," Craig Jones, head of the
regional cyber crime unit said in a statement. A number of
electronic items were seized by the police, it said.
No further details were provided.
VTech, a Hong Kong-based firm, disclosed the massive data breach
early in December. It subsequently said 6.4 million children and
4.9 million adults had their personal information stolen in the
attack. Nearly half of the victims live in Europe.
Regulators in Hong Kong, several U.S. states and the UK's
Information Commissioner's Office subsequently said they were
looking into the data breach, which also led to the theft of
personal information on 5 million adults.
U.S. lawmakers have asked VTech to explain why it collects data
on children, and how it secures that information.
(Reporting By Eric Auchard; editing by Michael Holden)
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