It was in August that the learning platform Vklass was hacked and personal data from 47,000 students from the city of Gothenburg were leaked.
The information, which concerned students’ names, school, schedule and grade, was for sale on a website and was only discovered after two months. Now two teenage boys are being punished for the data breach, which Gothenburg Post was the first to report.
According to the lawyer David BarDavid, who represents one of the boys, they should have carried out the intrusion out of pure curiosity.
– They did this with a few simple button presses that ordinary people could have done, says defense lawyer David BarDavid to SVT.
The information was put up for sale
The data the boys acquired was later put up for sale on a website. According to the boys themselves, the idea was never to sell them, but only to find out what they were worth.
The boys have confessed and the penalty was 60 daily fines, or SEK 3,000, each.
– They have declared themselves and have accepted the specified punishment, says David BarDavid.
The text is updated
In the clip below, you can hear an IT expert explaining why the leak should be considered serious
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