He tried to be selfish but couldn’t..

A TEEN who tried to bump up his grades to an A by hacking into his school’s computer system, accidentally revealed his cunning plan to officials.

It seemed like a good idea; break into the school’s network and change your grade to an A. However, due to a feature in the school’s record keeping software, he actually managed to turn everyone else’s grade into an A.
Busted
Then it turned out that by a strange quirk in the districts record keeping software that he managed to also make every kid in the District a certified genius.

Staff at the Natomas Unified School District in Sacramento, CA smelt a rat when they found that they were suddenly teaching 18,697 top scholars, instead of the usual bunch of no-hopers.

Natomas staff are a bit clued up on hacking at the moment, because there have been four separate incidents of hacking into school computers in the Sacramento area.

Seven students have been charged or are under nvestigation by school or law enforcement officials.

Collaring the teen and the bloke who he advised, apparently was not difficult.

He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanour charges in Sacramento Juvenile Court. He was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and six months' informal probation.

Bottom line here peeps, don't hack! You WILL get caught at some point and have to pay the price, though in this case those involved got off easy. I hope all you script kiddies out there get a hint from this and other stories like it and stop.


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Trackback from: Mustapha's weblog [Visitor]
TEEN hacker gets busted
A TEEN managed to bump up his grades to an A by hacking into his school’s computer system.
What he did ?
- He managed to turn his and everyone else’s grade into an A
- He managed to also make every kid in the District a certified genius.
The re...
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Comment from: Ace [Visitor]
I hate to tell you, but many people are missinformed as to what actually happened. The grades were not changed at all. What happened was that one of the guys deleted himself form the system and ended up crashing the system. Another system crash occurred when the other guy tried to change his grades and then crashed the system. The thing that finally got the guys caught was a final system crash caused by the deletion of a student which in turn deleted the entire student database. The IT "professionals" that work for Natomas Unified School District only caught on after the third crash.

You never heard about this because no one cares about the real story. No one cares that the access to the system was gained through a DEFAULT password and that the login is in a DEFAULT URL, or the fact that this "guest" account had administrator privilages when it shouldn't have had them. The only reason that Joe Jenkins and David Stone (The IT Dept. heads for NUSD) have jobs is because no one knows about their incompetance. I have tried many times in the past to warn NUSD about security holes in their computer system, including the one that these two hackers used, but they refused to listen to anything because they believe that they are immune to attack because of several back up systems and logging programs that they have.

I think that my friends were wrongfully represented by the media. They didn't do anything that they were not allowed to do by the school district.
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