Schools across the UK hit by cyber attack and documents leaked

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Confidential details including child passport scans and SEN data is published online, the BBC finds.

When data is stolen, Vice Society makes demands for money before leaking the documents if payment is not made.The Vice Society's website contained thousands of documents hacked from schools

Another folder marked "confidential" contains documents on the headmaster's pay, and student bursary fund recipients. "We notified staff and students of the incident, and while we were able to prevent the incident escalating, it resulted in a small, limited data breach of files on internal storage. On 7 October, the headteacher emailed again to say its systems were "accessed by an unauthorised third party." Teaching materials, which relied on Microsoft Teams, were affected, and the school said it had notified the Information Commissioners Office and police.

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