Tens of thousands of primary pupils’ details may have been stolen in a huge cyber-attack at government outsourcer Capita, Schools Week can reveal.
The dark web is being monitored for the information after the company was targeted in March, with 90 organisations reporting breaches of personal data held by Capita.
Capita runs several services for the Department for Education, including administering primary school SATs for the Standards and Testing Agency (STA).
Documents obtained by Schools Week reveal up to 30,000 pupil personal data records under the STA contract are “believed to have been exfiltrated”.
