A 21-year-old hacker was arrested in Spain for illegally accessing a government website to alter high school and university entrance exam grades for himself and classmates. The suspect, with a history of hacking, compromised accounts of at least 13 university professors and had a notebook detailing manipulated grades, leading to increased security measures on the educational platform used in the region.

A 27-year-old former student of Western Sydney University has been arrested for allegedly hacking the university's systems to obtain cheaper parking and access confidential data, affecting hundreds of staff and students. Birdie Kingston faces 20 charges, including unauthorized access and data theft, and is accused of stealing over 100GB of data and manipulating academic records. Despite prior warnings from police, she continued her hacking activities, even threatening to sell stolen student information on the dark web.