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A 15-year-old student at Shenendehowa Central School in New York State has been slammed with three felony charges for hacking into a school's server. Information is slowly coming out, but it appears the student allegedly gained access to the personal records (stored in poorly configured security system) of 250 school employees in the district .The district's server (containing vulnerable information such as Social Security numbers and home addresses) was left relatively unprotected for a period of several weeks. Any student, faculty member, or employee with a district password could gain access to the server and the files.
After gaining access to the information, the student used someone else's username and password to send an e-mail to the principle warning of the security hole. Details of the e-mail are not known, but a state trooper has claimed the student was "looking to profit from his criminal act." [From: The Register]
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Subscribe to commentsrecrudesceOct 29th 2008 9:14AM
nice Google server rack picture :]
retro77Oct 29th 2008 7:36PM
lol. I googled the image name to find out where it came from. I also found the first Google storage server made out of Legos.
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/0-4-Google.htm
Ah, Google ADD in high gear!
williamNov 1st 2008 12:55AM
Wait? He sent an email warning of the security hole? He never did anything bad? All he ever did was try to help the school! He was hacking completely ethically! thats bullshit, why did he get arrested for helping?
SapphireNov 6th 2008 1:11PM
There is no excuse for what he did and he needs to take responsibility for his actions ~ but knowing the parents, they will teach him how not to have a backbone and own up to what he did.
Hacking is hacking and it's still breaking the law regardless of what his intentions were. What I find sad is the school system didn't have someone checking their system for any flaws, that way they might have prevented this.
Hopefully the kid will think twice before hacking into someone's system and if he's smart, he'll set up his own computer security business when he's older and help companies to secure their systems so these kinds of things can be prevented.
yoNov 19th 2008 10:19PM
Learn to spell Terry. The word is princiPAL in this context.