Four computer science students are being investigated by the police after they found and highlighted a security weakness in Malta’s largest student application, FreeHour. Normally, a server would see a request for private data, check who is requesting it – in this case, it was the students – and deny access as the user does not have the required authorisation. FreeHour founder and CEO Zach Ciappara said that, once he received the e-mail from the four students in October, he contacted the office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (IDPC) and the Cyber Crime Unit for advice