Nursery hackers threaten to publish more children’s profiles

Hackers holding the pictures and the private data of thousands of children of the nursery and their families, to redeem, say that they will publish more information on the Internet if they are not paid.

The criminals calling themselves shining hacking the network of the Kido children's network and posted profiles of 10 children on the Internet on Thursday and another 10 on Friday.

They also published the private data of dozens of employees, including names, addresses, national insurance numbers and contact details.

Kido did not respond to BBC's requests about the comments. But he works with the authorities, and the police met the investigation.

Speaking at the BBC News, the former head of the National Cybersecurity Center, Ciaran Martin, called the actions of the criminals “absolutely terrible.”

But he also called for peace.

“Hackers are trying to root fear, and the risk of physical harm to children is extremely low,” he said.

Kido told his parents that the violation occurred when the criminals gained access to their data posted in the program service called Famly.

The software is widely used by other nurseries and children to care for children, and it says that on your web, it is used by more than one million “owners, managers, practice and family”.

“This malicious attack is a powerful barbaric new minimum when bad actors are trying to expose the data of our youngest children to work quickly,” said BBC BBC that the Famly anders laustsen boss.

“We conducted a thorough investigation of the incident and we can confirm that there was no violation of the security or infrastructure of the Famly in a way, and no other customers were injured.

“Of course, we are very serious about security and confidentiality.”

The website of the criminals contains a gallery of 20 children with their children's paintings, the date of birth, the place of birth and the details, such as they live, and contact details.

Parents contacted the BBC, worried hacking, and one mother received a threatening phone call from criminals.

A woman who did not want her to be called is said that hackers called her, who said that they would publish her child’s information on the Internet if she does not put pressure on Kido to pay a ransom.

Mother called this challenge “threatening.”

Another parent, Stephen Gilbert, told the program “Today” at the BBC Radio 4 that someone from the group of his parents also received a call.

“The revelation that children could be placed in a dark network is very important and anxious for me.”

But Sean, who has a child in kindergarten in kindergarten, contacted BBC News to say that he sympathizes with the staff there.

“We are now in the digital era, where everything is on the network, and I think that you are going to it, knowing that there is a risk that at some point it can happen,” he said.

“Any parents who are angry must probably direct their anger to the scum that actually did it.

“You see only people who control your children's, and they are all magnificent. And these poor people are those who receive it on the front line. ”

It is known that cybercriminal calls calls the victims to put pressure on them to pay the ransom.

But to call individual victims extremely rarely.

In conversations, through the reporting application, they signal the free English -speaking criminals, who said that BBC English is not their native language, and said that they hired people for calls.

This is a sign of soulless criminals, but also a sign of despair, because it seems that Kido does not observe.

Police Council – never pay hacker ransom, as this encourages a criminal ecosystem.

Hackers first contacted the BBC about their violation on Monday.

After they published the first batch of children's data on the Internet, Bi -Bi -x asked if they feel guilty for their sad actions, and the criminals said: “We do it for money, and not for anything but money.”

“I know that we are criminals,” they said.

“This is not the first time, and will not be mine for the last time.”

But they also said that they would no longer focus on preschool institutions, since attention was too large.

Since then, they deleted their signal account and can no longer contact.

Additional messages of James Kelly and Mary Lychfield.