Children’s names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery hack
Computer pirates say that approximately 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain have stolen their pictures, names and addresses.
A group of cyber criminals say that he uses extremely sensitive information to request a ransom from the company, which has 18 areas in and around London and around the US and India.
Criminals also say that children also know about their parents and caregivers and notes.
As part of their crop tactics, they claim that they contacted some parents by phone.
BBC contacted Kido for a comment. He has not yet approved the claims of the hackers.
However, an employee in one of the nurseries confirmed that he was informed of the data violation.
Cyber Security Company’s checkpoint described the targeting of nurseries as “an absolute new low”.
One of the Graeme Stuart experts said: “Intentionally putting children and schools on the ignition line cannot be defended. Frankly terrible.”
The Hack Group, responsible for the allegations, looks relatively new and calls itself bright.
Cyber criminals contacted the HACC with BBC and then sent details to Darknet websites.
There he published a data sample, including the pictures and profiles of 10 children from the stolen data set.
18 nursery was mostly published as part of the attempts to take money from the nursery chain in the London region.
The police recommend not to pay ransom as it fueled the cyber crime ecosystem.
When the BBC News was asked that they felt bad about the force of a nursery using children’s data, the criminals said that they “don’t want a tremendous amount” and “they deserve some compensation for our best.”
“Pentest” or penetration test – is the term hired by ethical computer pirates to control the safety of an organization in a controlled and professional way.
However, these pirates attacked the nursery chain without permission.
“Of course” about this money, they confessed to the BBC.
Hack is the last of a series of high -profile cyber attacks that see that production grinds at the stop point. Jaguar Land RoverAnd caused great interruption M&B And cooperative.
Rebecca Moody, the President of the Software Company Componitech’s data research, said the nature of the data published online was “alarm bells”.
“We’ve seen some low allegations from the ransom software gangs, but this sounds like a completely different level,” he said.
The company said that everyone who is affected by the data violation should communicate with the “issue of urgency”.
BBC approached the National Crime Agency for a comment.
Additional Reports by Technology Correspondent Graham Fraser
