OT: Hackers at Milton Academy alter records, cause havoc

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:23:47 -0500 
From: "Richard M. Smith" <[hidden email]> 
Subject: [funsec] 4 Milton students tied to hacking 
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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. 

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Kristian Erik Hermansen 

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