UK: Schools hit by cyber attack and documents leaked
Jonathan Holmes reports:
Highly confidential documents from 14 schools have been leaked online by hackers, the BBC can reveal.
One of those was Pates Grammar School in Gloucestershire, targeted by a hacking group called Vice Society.
The documents, seen by the BBC, include children’s SEN information, child passport scans, staff pay scales and contract details, taken in 2021 & 2022.
Read more at BBC. It’s interesting to see the comments or reactions of the schools when they were contacted about their incident response, e.g.
Lampton School issued a statement that read: “Teachers were aware of the breach but we did not inform them of the data that was stolen. The ICO did not tell us to notify the data subjects.