Mattel pyytää anteeksi.

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Leluvalmistaja Mattel vetää kaupoista uuden Wicked-elokuvan tähtien Glindan ja Elphaban nukkeversiot. Syynä on se, että 4-vuotiaille ja tätä vanhemmille suunnatut laulavat lelut sotkeentuivat vahingossa aivan toisenlaiseen viihteeseen.

Asiasta kirjoittavat esimerkiksi BBC ja Rolling Stone. Nukkejen paketeissa sekä verkossa olevissa ohjeissa oli väärä verkkosivun linkki. Sen piti olla wickedmovie.com, joka antaa lisätietoja elokuvasta. Sen sijaan osoitteeksi ilmoitettiin wicked.com, joka sisältää pornoa.

Mattel ‘deeply regrets’ porn site misprint on Wicked dolls

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo

Mattel Pulls ‘Wicked’ Dolls After Mistakenly Listing Adult Porn Site on Packaging

“We deeply regret this unfortunate error and are taking immediate action to remedy this,” toy company said in a statement

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/mattel-pulls-wicked-dolls-adult-porn-site-packaging-1235161204/

Mattel Inc., the company that produces Hot Wheels, Batman action figures and Barbie dolls, recently experienced a ransomware attack. No sensitive data was lost. The company managed to independently overcome the attack. It’s a rare success story.

Mattel reports that it has suffered “no material impact to operations or financial condition.” Typically, ransomware attacks lead to business downtime and flurry of frustrating financial costs.

Straightforward emergency response protocols enabled to company to contain the infection. Mattel’s system’s were down for a brief window, but such an encumbrance amidst a ransomware attack is akin to escaping a car crash with just a few scratches to the paint.

Cyber criminals first targeted Mattel in 2015. That attack involved a spear phishing campaign and an accidental transfer of over $3 million. Since then, Mattel has worked to increase its cyber security measures and protocols.

How Did Chinese Phishers Get $3M From Mattel? They Asked
https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2016/how-did-chinese-phishers-get-3m-from-mattel-they-asked/

The media is obsessed with the word “hacker.” It’s become something of a digital boogeyman, conjuring up images of hooded teenagers bent over keyboards in rooms full of computers and their constituent parts. When one of their elusive number strikes at the corporate world, their skills are discussed in nonspecific and vaguely threatening terms — they bypass, they slip through, they disable security systems.

So, why is it that these super-skilled cyberthieves didn’t even break out their passcode generators when they stole $3 million from Mattel? Where were all the corporate firewalls when the hackers asked and received the money they never should’ve been sent?

That has to be haunting the halls of toymaker Mattel’s headquarters now that Associated Press has broken news of an incident that began April 30, 2015 — a month after Mattel’s then-new CEO Christopher Sinclair had taken over the top spot in the organization. The story goes that an anonymous financial executive received an email from Sinclair requesting clearance for a $3 million wire transfer to a bank in China to settle the bill for a vendor’s services. Mattel’s corporate policy on funding transfers requires approval from two executive-level managers, which the presence of the unnamed financial exec and Sinclair’s email imposter seemed to satisfy.

There is no more popular toy in the automotive world than Hot Wheels. Most of us at Donut were introduced to cars through Hot Wheels, and most still collect them to this day. Much like us there are millions of people that are obsessed with Hot Wheels and have incredible collections. How exactly did Mattel create the biggest selling toy in the world? How did it best companies like Matchbox? And how did a failed guitar design save Hot Wheels from losing to the competition?

Mattel is the best performer on the S&P 500, adding 5% to its price on the heels of positive commentary by their CEO on their quarterly earnings call.