Broward County Fla. March 18 2008
A high school senior is accused of hacking into a Broward School District computer and collecting a cache of Social Security numbers, addresses and other personal information about employees from the district's database.School administrators are asking the district's nearly 37,000 workers to keep an eye on their online bank accounts as a precaution."There's so many people working in the schools, it's a little frightening to think what can be done with that amount of information," said Anne Clark, 61, a special education teacher at Coconut Creek High School.An e-mail and automated phone call were sent to all district personnel late Friday informing them of the hacking.
The student — identified only as a student at Atlantic Technical High School in Coconut Creek has been suspended for two weeks pending expulsion, said district spokesman Keith Bromery. The student's name and age were not released.Coconut Creek police say the incident is still under investigation; no arrests have been made. Authorities could not say whether the student worked alone or what his motives were."We don't have any evidence that anything was done with the information, but employees should monitor transactions as they would do anyway," Bromery said.Administrators became suspicious of illegal activity after a teacher noticed a student had used a school computer to download hacking software, Bromery said.Police were called in to handle the investigation after the downloads were traced to the suspected student. They received a court order to search the student's home computer, where they found names, ages and private information culled from the school system's employee database, Bromery said."We don't think he was able to actually use the information," Bromery said. "It's almost an intellectual activity to see how far they can go with subverting the system."Though a student was able to change as many as 20 grades and other records after breaking into the system in 2006, Bromery said this incident was the biggest public school hacking he could remember."There's a special investigative unit handling this right now; it's probably the most serious case we've had in a while," he said.
A high school senior is accused of hacking into a Broward School District computer and collecting a cache of Social Security numbers, addresses and other personal information about employees from the district's database.School administrators are asking the district's nearly 37,000 workers to keep an eye on their online bank accounts as a precaution."There's so many people working in the schools, it's a little frightening to think what can be done with that amount of information," said Anne Clark, 61, a special education teacher at Coconut Creek High School.An e-mail and automated phone call were sent to all district personnel late Friday informing them of the hacking.
The student — identified only as a student at Atlantic Technical High School in Coconut Creek has been suspended for two weeks pending expulsion, said district spokesman Keith Bromery. The student's name and age were not released.Coconut Creek police say the incident is still under investigation; no arrests have been made. Authorities could not say whether the student worked alone or what his motives were."We don't have any evidence that anything was done with the information, but employees should monitor transactions as they would do anyway," Bromery said.Administrators became suspicious of illegal activity after a teacher noticed a student had used a school computer to download hacking software, Bromery said.Police were called in to handle the investigation after the downloads were traced to the suspected student. They received a court order to search the student's home computer, where they found names, ages and private information culled from the school system's employee database, Bromery said."We don't think he was able to actually use the information," Bromery said. "It's almost an intellectual activity to see how far they can go with subverting the system."Though a student was able to change as many as 20 grades and other records after breaking into the system in 2006, Bromery said this incident was the biggest public school hacking he could remember."There's a special investigative unit handling this right now; it's probably the most serious case we've had in a while," he said.
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