High School Hackers Use Trojan Program To Change Their Grades
June 29th, 2008 | by Foo |By Spyware News www.spywarenews.org - A couple of teens from Tesoro High School in Orange County, California, are being charged with multiple felony charges after being caught of hacking into their school’s computer network in order to infect it with spyware designed to monitor and change their grades.
The teachers at Tesoro High School started to suspect foul play when they noticed that the two 18-year old high school hackers, Tanvir Singh and Omar Khan have unusually high grades that conflicted with their actual classroom performance.
According to official police reports, Khan and Singh conspired and plotted their theft and hacking activities as far back as January of this year. Concurrently, Khan himself broke into the school on several occasions and has stolen the school’s master key, which he then used to gain easier access to the school facilities. He then stole his teacher’s login and passwords and used it to alter his and Singh’s grades, along with 12 other students.
Tanvir Singh is now facing four counts of felony, which consists of burglary, conspiracy, computer fraud, and altering public record. If found guilty, the 18-year old Singh could be sentenced to a three year prison term. On the other hand, Omar Khan, who is currently being held on a $50,000 bail, could be sentenced to as much as 38 years in prison, due to the severity of the felonies that he committed.
This news was both unexpected and tragic for the relatives and friends of the two teenagers, since both would have graduated from Tesoro High last June 18 if the debacle did not happen. - www.spywarenews.org
