Police are investigating a cyber-attack where it is thought a hacker posed as a school to obtain exam papers before selling them online.
Cambridgeshire Police said they are in the “early stages” of investigating a “data breach” involving exam boards Pearson and OCR. The boards had exam papers “extracted from their systems and sold online”, the police said.
Officers are working with the National Crime Agency and the Department for Education on the investigation.
Schools Week understands the incident relates to a school’s email system being hacked and then used to request papers from the exam boards – before the exam was taken. It is not known which exams this relates to.
