If you thought that the spotty teen hacker working from a back bedroom was an outdated stereotype now that organised cybercrime is big business, think again. It seems the server room is just as likely to be targeted by teens out to top up their pocket money.

Not all hackers are in it for the kudos of quickly cracking the Mac or making a laughing stock of IE8.

A survey by security outfit Trend Micro suggests that the old stereotype of the spotty teenager hacking for pocket money cash might be more on the money that many people think.

It reveals that as many as one in three of the teenagers questioned said that they would be happy to hack in return for some quick and easy money.

Of the 1000 teenagers polled, some forty percent admitted to having already hacked the profile of someone else on a social networking site or looked at online bank account details that did not belong to them.

Ten percent reckoned it was cool to impersonate someone else when online, and 35 percent were tempted to turn their hand to hacking for cash. Perhaps surprisingly, in this age of equality in all things, boys were twice as likely as girls to hack into a social networking site.

However, girls caught up when it came to hacking into an online bank account, being three times more likely to do this than the boys.

Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro likens it to kids breaking into school to change report markings, but warns that online hacking is a lot easier and the kids know they have a lot less chance of being caught.

Yet another reason for you to take your server security seriously!