The Washington Post is reporting that students at Winston Churchill (Potomac, MD) hacked into the school’s computer system and changed class grades.
Grade for 54 students were improperly altered in the first semester of this school year.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030303047.html?hpid=newswell
March 3, 2010 | Posted in
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