Experts warn of increasing threat to systems used by universities at crunch points in the academic year after hundreds of thousands of student records compromised.

Hundreds of thousands of email addresses understood to be affected in hack claimed by notorious ShinyHunters group.

Hackers from a well known cybercriminal group have accessed personal student data held by the University of Nottingham.

Personal data relating to pupils and staff from a school in Powys has been accessed during a cyber security incident that affected 13 schools across the region.