4 Milton students tied to hacking

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

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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