The Kido Nursery Breach - How a GitHub Repository Exposed 8,000 Children
The Kido nursery breach exposed 8,000 children's data in September 2025, but the attack vector reveals a critical lesson for schools: this wasn't sophisticated hacking. Security researchers discovered a publicly accessible GitHub repository containing API credentials in plain text. The kido-kidssafe/myskio-api repository had the "keys to the kingdom visible in the clear." Two 17-year-olds were arrested in Hertfordshire, but the real story is how preventable this breach was. Schools must audit th
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