Overview

• Specialist officers arrested males aged 17 and 22 on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail, and they remain in custody for questioning.
• The investigation follows Radiant’s late-September claim to have stolen sensitive data on roughly 8,000 Kido children and to have posted limited samples on a dark‑web site.
• Parents reported phone calls from the gang as it sought a bitcoin ransom, with several outlets reporting a demand of about £600,000.
• After widespread backlash, the group said it blurred images, apologized and claimed to have deleted the files, a claim not independently verified.
• Kido told families the data was accessed via its use of the Famly platform; Famly says its infrastructure was not breached and regulators continue to assess the incident.