One out of every four British teenagers revealed that they have tried to hack their friends’ Facebook accounts just for fun. This blustering information came in a survey conducted by Tufin Software Technologies, a security company, and Cumbria Constabulary. The survey was conducted on 1150 children below the age of 19 years.

The survey revealed that the most common way of access among the teenagers is to crack each other's passwords. According to the survey, 18% teens said that they had tried to access a friend's email while 6% of them admitted that they had tried to access the email accounts of their parents.

One fourth teens said that they have done it just for fun while 21% of them said that they wanted to make their friends in trouble. The survey showed that 50% of teenagers used their personal computers or the computers of their school.

Surprisingly more than 7% of the respondents revealed that they had tried to attack an online shopping website while 5% said that they had tried to hack their school’s website. Nearly 3% teens admitted to attack on corporate websites. Around 20% of the teens said that they had done it for getting money.