The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) described the reported incident as “deeply distressing.” Carl Court/Getty Images

Hackers who stole the data of more than 8,000 children including photos, addresses and names and published some of the information on the dark web have removed the posts online and claim to have deleted the information, according to UK media reports.

The perpetrators had stolen the data from the Kido nursery chain and had been demanding the company pay a ransom by bitcoin.

According to the BBC , they had been contacting parents directly by telephone in order get the ransom – which is thought to have been around £600,000 ($809,700) – paid.

But now, the criminals, who reportedly call themselves “Radiant,” appear to have backtracked by removing all the informati

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