Teenager Hacks High School Network To Improve Grades

Eric Walstrom, an american teenager (age 16) reportedly hacked into high school network and then changed his grades in the report cards and transcripts.

He bypassed the school’s (New Dorp High School in Staten Island, New York) password system and then created a network that allows him to access the school computer system from his smartphone.

He was caught when the school IT workers noticed the unauthorised log-ins to the system. The school notified police, and Walstrom was arrested on Wednesday this week.

A law-enforcement source said, “You’d think a kid smart enough to hack his school’s computers would already have good grades. Maybe the DOE should hire him to expose weaknesses in their security firewalls.”

He has been charged as an adult with forgery, computer trespass, unauthorised use of a computer, computer tampering and criminal possession of forgery devices.

This incident points to an undeniable fact that the new generation of teenagers are very much knowledgeable about the computer security and hacking.