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fromTheregister
9 hours ago

Teen students responsible for majority of school hacks

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) looked at 215 data breach cases at schools between January 2022 and August 2024, noting that 57 percent were caused by students, and almost a third (30 percent) were caused by stolen login details. In the case of stolen logins - either by students seeing others input credentials and remembering, or simply reading them noted down on paper - pupils were behind 97 percent of these attacks.
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fromComputerWeekly.com
23 hours ago

Students an increasing source of cyber threat in UK schools | Computer Weekly

Students increasingly cause insider cyber attacks on UK schools and colleges, often for fun, frequently using stolen logins and risking future criminality.
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