Law enforcement authorities are making significant progress in their investigation into the cyber attacks on VTech. On Tuesday, a 21-year-old man was arrest by Berkshire police. Authorities are reportedly investigating the connection between the unidentified suspect and the hacking of VTech.

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A statement released by the South East Regional Organized Crime Unit (Serocu) claims that the man is currently being held under suspicion of "unauthorized access" to a computer.

"We are still at the early stages of the investigation and there is still much work to be done. Cybercrime is an issue which has no boundaries and affects people on a local, regional and global level," Serocu head of cybercrime unit Craig Jones said in a statement.

Sometime in mid-November, the servers of Chinese toy maker VTech were breached. The hack exposed personal details of more than six million people, including their names, birthdays and addresses.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack and it is still unclear whether the hack was perpetrated by a single hacker or a group of hackers.

VTech is known to sell a wide range of electronic products that are marketed to children, including toy cars, cameras, interactive garages, tablets, e-books and video games.

The hack targeted VTech's server that supports the company's Learning Lodge app. The software allows registered customers to download additional content for their VTech devices. These content might include e-books or games.

The Learning Lodge database stores the names, email addresses, encrypted passwords, IP addresses and other personal data of VTech customers. Among the sensitive information store on the server are names, gender and date of births of children. The hack might have compromised the information of customers from all over the world including China, France, United Kingdom and United States

VTech claims that despite the severity and sophistication of the attack, no credit card data was stolen.

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