“British intelligence agency MI5 has hired many teenage hackers for its new secret operation to combat cyber terrorism.

At least 50 new computer-savvy hackers, including many teenagers, have been roped in the newly formed Cyber Operations Command, and they had to sign the Official Secrets Act, the Sunday Express reports.

The Act forbids them from telling their parents or girlfriends what they do in the windowless basement area in the Security Service building beside the Thames, the report adds.

The teenagers, most of whom are of Asian-origin, are subjected to the same high level of background security checks used to clear other intelligence staff.”

(MI5 ropes in teenage hackers to combat cyber terrorism)