Students Hack into School's Computer Systems to Change Their Grades
Four high school students are charged of hacking into the Fort Bend Independent School District's computer network and altering grades for at least 60 students, as reported by the district officials.
The case could be regarded as a felony case, since the financial loss of the act is estimated at about $190,000. According to the law, an action leading to a loss of $100,000 to $200,000 should be called a second-degree felony, which carries a penalty of two to twenty years of prison.
All the grade changes were made for students enrolled at the Hightower High School, which is where the students under investigation are enrolled. According to the school district officials corrective measures have already been taken.
Mary Ann Simpson, spokeswoman of the school district said that it was very important that all of the students' grades to be reevaluated. Only this way there may be confidence in the fact that the grades are accurate and have not been tampered with.
There was no information wether the hackers only improved the grades or gave some students lower grades. In any case, as the investigators state, the altered grades would have been recorded on report cards or on other academic records. Among the students under investigation there were two students with their grade changed to higher scores.
During the investigation it became clear that computer network's of four other Fort Bend schools have also been hacked into, thus some data in the computer system was lost and some data was altered, however only grades at Hightower school were changed. According to the officials, all the data has already been recovered.
At this time no legal action was taken against the hackers, three of which were juveniles. Any disciplinary measures or legal actions will be taken only after the investigation is over and the guilt of the suspected students is proven.
The case of hacking into the computer system of the schools has become a ground for checking the computer security procedures in order to prevent further attempts to breach the schools' network security.
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//27 Oct 28, 2009 08:10 AM | posted by:
noneedtoknow - i know how to do it! all you do is just look behind the computer unplug everything plug it bak in, go slap your teacher, tie him to a chair and force him/her to change your grades!! works like a charm:)
- 1 votes
//26 Oct 26, 2009 02:43 PM | posted by: tobi - //22, how?
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//25 Oct 08, 2009 07:48 PM | posted by: chase - i need better grades
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//24 Sep 21, 2009 09:25 AM | posted by: Unknown - Oh Hannah Tanna
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//23 Aug 19, 2009 03:44 AM | posted by:
whella [InfoKID]
- It's bad to know that there's a some doing it.You know it's felling good if your grade is honest.then still the teacher will notice it, coz they really familiar to those fail student and also they have a record coz may be they have a back up file. that is why they will wonder if something change to thier record on the computer. This all i can say to those student will something bad just to change thier grade, it's bad and i discourage to those that will do it.
- 3 votes
//22 Aug 09, 2009 01:01 PM | posted by: Wolf - I've hacked into the school computers, but I'm not stupid enough to change grades. I just like having root.
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//21 Aug 03, 2009 11:18 AM | posted by: tony - how can i hack code the result to change their grade pls help i need it badly i need more info pls.
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//20 Jul 14, 2009 04:19 AM | posted by: Unknown - Bet it happens all the time. Only this time the poor guys got caught. Unlucky. Having the intelligence to hack into a system, any system, means they aren't stupid.
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//19 Jun 15, 2009 01:03 PM | posted by: Unknown - you guys are gay
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//18 Jun 04, 2009 05:47 PM | posted by: bozo - wow this really happens
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//17 May 18, 2009 07:22 AM | posted by: JTuEUBOk - wat is mainframe cud sumone tell me cuz i want to become a hacker
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//16 May 14, 2009 01:14 PM | posted by: kaylee - i want to change my grades on the computer how do i!!!!!!!
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//15 Feb 27, 2009 06:02 PM | posted by: badboy - thats funny
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//14 Jan 14, 2009 06:49 AM | posted by: <><>RoB<><> - use mainframe!!! omfg theres kids are soo dumb all u have to do is go to a library and do it
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//13 Dec 21, 2008 05:41 PM | posted by: Unknown - dam i hack the computers in school all the time, how the hell do they get caught? gezzzz dumbass kids these days don't even know to to do things right
- 2 votes
//12 Dec 15, 2008 04:25 PM | posted by: hacka-dummy - LOL~ Wow... :O i was just thinking of doing it not knowing it was illegal.. :O but glad i didn't :] PEACe
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//11 Dec 05, 2008 08:38 PM | posted by: kingkillar - the suc i would have use mainframe so they couldnt trace me
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//10 Dec 03, 2008 04:41 AM | posted by: sarwanandan - virus
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//9 Nov 30, 2008 09:33 PM | posted by: toadei - omfg, they couldnt alter school records and not get caught, they should have used one of the school library computers and signed in under a fake name, or maybe they did and the wrong kids got caught. dammed, if i did it i would have just moled the mainframe and used the library pc, everybody in a school knows a kid (teachers pet / office aid, or just a va nerd) with easy access to the system, they could have used somthing as obvious as vnc and not got caught if they did it right, this is just funny, glad i checked it out.
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//8 Nov 14, 2008 06:27 AM | posted by: Mei - Wow you people are completely random..
Lol sharaeff.
XD That's funny!
I suggest them to just study more --?
Lazy people ; - ; - 2 votes
//7 Nov 13, 2008 09:22 PM | posted by: Robbie - I'm just about to.
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//6 Nov 13, 2008 08:10 AM | posted by: chris - This is the best website in the world
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//5 Oct 14, 2008 11:56 AM | posted by: lmiom - hey you guys should not do that type of thing it is bad
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//4 Oct 06, 2008 06:59 AM | posted by:
sharaeff [InfoBIG]
- Hey hackers, you should study more if you want to fool your teachers!!!
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//3 Aug 15, 2008 08:49 PM | posted by: Fei Fei - I wish I could do that.
- 3 votes
//2 Aug 07, 2008 03:07 AM | posted by: pravin - great
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//1 Jul 26, 2008 12:03 PM | posted by: .ur mom - haha im off topic so delete dizz rite herrrrr
