The UK's data protection watchdog says more than half of cyberattacks in schools are caused by students, and that parents should act early to prevent their offspring from falling into the wrong crowds.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) looked at 215 data breach cases at schools between January 2022 and August 2024, noting that 57 percent were caused by students, and almost a third (30 percent) were caused by stolen login details.

In the case of stolen logins – either by students seeing others input credentials and remembering, or simply reading them noted down on paper – pupils were behind 97 percent of these attacks.

While only 5 percent of cases were caused by sophisticated means, such as techniques to bypass security controls, the ICO echoed the National Crime Agency's (NCA

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