Teenage hackers are targeting faceless entities such as telecommunication firms in the recent TalkTalk breach. The most high-profile cases that involved teenagers were probably the actions of the LulzSec hacker group. The FBI has just started their investigation, so the attackers true identity, including his or her age, hasn’t been verified yet. The term “script kiddie,” describing someone, presumed to be quite young, who can merely use such ready-to-use attack tools or “scripts” but lacking the advanced skills required to find vulnerabilities, started to gain widespread adoption in the early 2000s.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/the-youthful-side-of-hacking