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Nursery hackers threaten to publish more children's profiles online


The criminals say they will share 30 more profiles along with 100 employees' data if a ransom is not paid.

Hackers holding pictures and private data of thousands of nursery children and their families to ransom say they will publish more information online unless they are paid. The woman, who did not want to be named, says she received a phone call from the hackers who said they would post her child's information online unless she put pressure on Kido to pay a ransom. In conversations through the messaging app Signal the fluent English-speaking criminals told the BBC English is not their first language and claimed they hired people to make the calls.

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