The Sunday Telegraph reported that Gabbitas had said it believed the leak had happened as a result of an unspecified “cyberattack” The leak of a database of schoolchildren was caused by a technical error and not an external attack as apparently claimed at the time. The source says he stumbled on the exposed database on 17 August while using Google to locate an acquaintance’s email address. The number of records involved was relatively small by data breach standards, but the fact that they were of children and contained highly sensitive notes on personality traits and weaknesses.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2132169/child-database-leak-caused-by-error-not-hacking.html