Tech-Savvy Students Hack Into School Computers

Tech-Savvy Students Hack Into School Computers

Schools Work to Prevent Security Breaches
By Katie Ash

At Winston Churchill High School in Montgomery County, Md., students were accused of stealing computer passwords and tampering with grades. In Orange County, Calif., a student at Tesoro High School went on trial for hacking into the student database and changing his and several other students' grades. At Haddonfield Memorial High School in New Jersey, two students were charged with using keystroke-recording software to gain access to passwords that allowed them to break into secure areas of the school's computer system.

"Students are very, very tech-savvy. Far more savvy than the majority of adults at our school," says Michael Wilson, the principal of the 775-student Haddonfield Memorial High.

The students at his school were stopped by an observant teacher, who noticed suspicious activity and soon discovered the students were logging in as teachers, says Wilson.

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