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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:23:47 -0500 From: "Richard M. Smith" <[hidden email]> Subject: [funsec] 4 Milton students tied to hacking To: <[hidden email]> Message-ID: <014601c830f0$5c413240$0500a8c0@RMSHP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2007/11/27/4_milton_stude nts_tied_to_hacking/ A Milton Academy student has been expelled and three others have been suspended for the rest of the school year after they hacked into the elite private school's computer system, changed grades, altered attendance records, and, in one case, gained access to an exam before it was administered, according to a letter school officials sent to parents last week. The security breach last month prompted school administrators to ask faculty to review the midterm grades of all students in the upper school. "The actions of all four students had potentially profound effects," Rick Hardy, the interim head of school, wrote in the letter. "They undermined the security of communication among all members of the community and threatened the validity of the attendance and grading systems, which must be inviolable." The incident is the latest scandal to rock the 209-year-old school south of Boston. Over the past two years, Milton Academy has weathered a sex scandal involving a 15-year-old girl who had engaged in oral sex with five hockey players in the campus locker room, a controversial effort to close its lower school, and the resignation of its long-serving head of school. In his letter, Hardy wrote that a male student from the upper school obtained access to e-mail and network passwords in October. Over recent weeks, he wrote, the boy downloaded to a personal computer others' passwords and changed his attendance record, several of his grades, and the grades of other students in his classes. -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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