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. What seemed like a good idea: break into the school’s network and change your grade to an A, turned out to be slightly problematic. A feature in the school’s record keeping software actually changed everyone else’s grade into an A.
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.... I think this shows how NOT to do somethin btw...
Staff at the Natomas Unified School District became aware of an anomoly (no$hit) when they found that they were suddenly teaching 18,697 top scholars.
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 (Tsk Tsk). Seven students have been charged or are under nvestigation by school or law enforcement officials (Ouch!).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.
