Daily Safeguarding Update

EA confirms FIFA Ultimate Team trader accounts hacked

Electronic Arts (EA) has confirmed several FIFA Ultimate Team trader accounts have been hacked using phishing techniques.
Several high-profile traders had their accounts hacked and cleared of FIFA points and coins worth thousands.
EA has released a statement, confirming that individuals were able to exploit human error within their customer experience team and bypass two-factor authentication to gain access.
EA is implementing additional training for advisers, more steps for account ownership verification process, and updating customer experience software.
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According to a global coalition of factchecking organisations, YouTube is a major conduit of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide.
The coalition claims that YouTube is not doing enough to tackle the spread of falsehoods on its platform.
A letter signed by more than 80 groups including Full Fact in the UK reports that the platform is hosting content by groups which spread COVID-19 misinformation.
For more information on misinformation, check out our blog post.
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Among Us VR was announced in December 2021.
The game has players assume the role of crewmates to do tasks or the role of secret imposter, aiming to eliminate the crewmates.
Recent rumours suggest that the VR adaptation of the popular game will come in 2022.
There is no official release date confirmed by developer Innersloth just yet.
For more information on Among Us, check out our blog post.
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The children’s commissioner claims that local authorities should act as “pushy parents” for children in care.
Local authorities may even act to take children to school in areas of gang activity.
Dame Rachel de Souza says that numbers of children in care are unacceptable and “we need all those children in education”.
Local authorities need to ensure that children get in the right schools “…they have a right to be there”.
She had recently visited a children’s home where some girls were not attending school due to risk of being targeted by gangs.
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Former Castlebrae ‘superhead’ Derek Curran who was accused of failures over child protection is free to return to teaching, an inquiry has ruled.
A panel cleared him of alleged failures to take appropriate action on reports of historic child abuse.
A former pupil claimed she had a sexual relationship with him at 15 and later had his child after turning 18.
During the inquiry, the lawyers said that a lab letter with DNA evidence was forged.
The General Teaching Council for Scotland hearing also cleared him over the alleged failure to provide progress claims of sexual harassment by the same young woman.
Full story, here.