schools

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2025
UK ICO finds students behind majority of school data breaches

UK ICO reports students caused over half of school data breaches, showing kids are shaping cybersecurity in unexpected ways. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), students were responsible for most of the data breaches suffered by the schools in the country. The U.K.’s independent regulator for data protection and information rights also reported that nearly […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2023
App used by hundreds of schools leaking children’s data

Almost a million files with minors’ data, including home addresses and photos were left open to anyone on the internet, posing a threat to children. During a recent investigation, the Cybernews research team discovered that IT company Appscook – which develops applications used by more than 600 schools in India and Sri Lanka for education […]