Children as young as seven linked to school cyber breaches, with over half of education attacks carried out by pupils

The Information Commissioner's Office, the UK’s independent regulator for data protection and information rights, says more than half of cyber attacks and data breaches in schools and colleges in the past three years were carried out by pupils. Of the 215 hacks and breaches in educational establishments investigated by the ICO in that period, 57 percent of them were perpetrated by students. SEE ALSO: UK schools not doing their homework on email security Nearly a third of the offenses involved pupils guessing passwords or stealing teacher logins in order to access staff systems. The watchdog says the children are hacking… [Continue Reading]