Ransomware takes down Axios electronic register used by about 40% of schools
Axios Italia, supplier to about 40% of Italian schools, reported a ransomware attack starting 3 April 2021 that left many schools without their register as in-person lessons resumed. The company told teachers and staff to use an emergency register, said it expected to restore service, and said its checks so far showed no data stolen. […]
Violent animal-killing video shared in middle school class WhatsApp chat
A first-year pupil at a middle school in Reggio Emilia shared a graphic video in a class WhatsApp group showing a sheep being slaughtered, upsetting and disturbing many classmates. Parents reacted immediately, expressing concern about the impact on children and consulting a lawyer. Some considered filing a complaint with prosecutors and criticized the school’s response. […]
WhatsApp group with over 700 middle school students circulated Nazi imagery and sexual content involving children
A WhatsApp group with more than 700 participants, many of them middle school students, was found to be circulating child sexual abuse material, pornographic content, and Nazi imagery. The discovery prompted reports to parents, school authorities, and law enforcement agencies, leading to an investigation into the origin and dissemination of the material. The case highlighted […]
Ads, games and paid partner services inside the ClasseViva register app (“MyTools”)
A parent of a high-school student in Italy first raised the issue, and a national newspaper published an investigation in March 2025 showing the MyTools section held games, links to commercial sites and paid services such as student loans and study trips. The Minister of Education called it unacceptable, and in April 2025 the Ministry […]
Pornographic video broadcast into a primary school’s online open day in Italy
In January 2021, intruders joined an online open day for a primary school in Italy, which was accessed via a public link, and broadcast a pornographic video and blasphemous audio to teachers and prospective families. Organizers could not remove the intruders, so everyone left the meeting. The female head teacher reported the incident to the […]
Andorra – SafeSearch bypass exposes pupils to sexual content; nationwide iPad withdrawal
Several students at an Andorran primary school used school-provided digital devices to access sexual content shortly before the Sant Joan holiday. The incident was discovered by a teacher during school activities and reported to school leadership, which escalated the matter to the Ministry of Education. According to government spokesperson Guillem Casal, the access was linked […]
Ghana – Education Minister public warning on tablet porn access
Ghana’s Minister for Education publicly expressed serious concern that some high school students are using government-issued tablets to access pornographic content. This is an official government statement rather than a single documented incident, and represents formal acknowledgment at the ministerial level of a pattern the ministry considers significant enough to raise publicly. No details on […]
Government-issued tablets for primary school pupils were left in storage because schools struggled to use them
In 2013, the Kenyan government launched an ambitious initiative to provide digital devices to young primary school students as part of a national digital literacy effort. However, the program faced major implementation challenges, including inadequate infrastructure, limited access to electricity, insufficient teacher training, lack of technical support, and schools unprepared to integrate the devices into […]
Support teacher allegedly shows pornographic videos to middle school pupils under pretext of tutoring, then continues via social media group
A female support teacher at a middle school was arrested in January 2025, accused of taking pupils into a school room under the pretext of tutoring, showing them pornographic videos and sexually abusing one of them, starting in October 2023. When the room was closed, she allegedly continued the abuse through a private social media […]
34 high school students tried for altering attendance and grades on register using stolen teacher passwords
In the 2015/2016 school year, students at a high school in the Marche region, Italy, used stolen teachers’ passwords to change attendance and grades on the school register. The high number of changes made the teaching staff suspicious. The school head reported the incident to the postal police, whose investigation identified 23 girls and 11 […]