A TEENAGER has been charged with a hacking attack on Mumsnet, which caused the parenting site to reset moren than seven million members’ passwords.

David Buchanan, 18, of Vann Road, Fernhurst, faces two counts of hacking and one of impairing the operation of or hindering access to a computer.

The charges relate to "computer intrusion and damage to network profiles" in July and August 2015.

Buchanan is accused of two counts of causing a computer to perform a function to secure or enable unauthorised access to a programme or data, and one of unauthorised acts with intent to impair operation of or prevent or hinder access to a computer, under the Computer Misuse Act.

Mr Buchanan is expected to appear at Guildford Magistrates’ Court on June 7.

The Mumsnet homepage was redirected to a now suspended Twitter profile page and had some posts edited during a cyber attack in August last year. It was also subjected to a distributed denial of service attack, swamping it with internet traffic to try to force it offline.

The Metropolitan Police said two 17-year-old boys who were were interviewed under caution in relation to the incidents were eliminated from the inquiry.

Mumsnet users were made to reset their passwords as a "precautionary measure" following the attacks.

The company behind the website is owned by Justine Roberts, the wife of BBC Newsnight editor Ian Katz.