Students Busted for Hacking, Exposing Information and Changing Grades
Students Busted for Hacking, Exposing Information and Changing Grades
Three high school kids have been arrested for hacking into their school's system. The students changed their grades and made some money selling quiz answers to classmates. It all started when they broke into the janitor’s office and made a copy of the master key which gave them access to all of the classrooms. Once in the classrooms they attached keylogging hardware to four teachers' computers and later came back to retrieve the keylogging devices (probably just usb drives with basic software you can get for free). This enabled them to get all of the teachers' passwords required to access the central files of the school network.
Once inside they changed their grades to A’s and when they were busted, keyloggers were found on three other teachers' computers indicating the group was expanding their efforts.
These were “smart” kids that were enrolled in AP and honors classes so they really didn’t need the help making better grades. In response, the school expelled two of the students involved and others are to be disciplined for receiving the stolen information. The school also announced that is has “upgraded security” to the system and has advised teachers to change their passwords. I’m absolutely certain nothing has really been done to stop this from potentially happening again.
This sounds pretty familiar to that old film War Games with Matthew Broderick.