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Thousands of British school pupils have had their private details leaked online by a cyber gang, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Hackers stole private data including photocopies of children’s passports, disciplinary records and child protection reports relating to vulnerable pupils.
Experts last night warned that the hack left some youngsters exposed to grooming by criminal gangs.
The hackers plundered five schools and a sixth form college, including the £36,000-a-year independent Durham School, the alma mater of former Downing Street aide Dominic Cummings.
Hackers stole private data including photocopies of children’s passports, disciplinary records and child protection reports relating to vulnerable pupils
The gang, called Vice Society, then uploaded the data on to the so-called ‘dark web’ after the schools refused to pay a ransom demand.
Philip Ingram, a retired colonel in military intelligence, said: ‘The dark web is used increasingly by serious and organised criminals for a variety of purposes. They look for vulnerability in kids when grooming them for things like running drugs along county lines, for exploitation in paedophile rings or recruitment by
