20 years for hacking school grades?
p2pnet news | Crime:- Up to 20 years in jail and a $250,000 fine if you’re caught hacking a computer to improve exam files is perfectly reasonable.
Correct?
Well, sure.
In a country where a file sharer can find herself with a bill of almost a quarter of a million dollars, why not?
“Two California State University, Fresno, students are facing 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines after allegedly hacking into the school’s PeopleSoft system and changing their grades,” says the CSOonline blog, going on:
The recently unsealed indictment in this case provides the classic outline of an insider job.
A help desk employee leverages his position to obtain administrative privileges from a supervisor’s account.
Using these rights they got usernames and passwords of the school’s registrar and other officials and then changed their grades.
The two are John Escalera, 29, and Gustavo Razo, 28,
“Using computer software, his knowledge of Fresno State’s computer system and computer hacking techniques, defendant Escalara was able to acquire the computer password of a Fresno estate supervisor, who was working as an operating systems analyst,” says the indictment.
With his “newly acquired an elevated access rights,” Escalera was able to access the user names and passwords of several academic officials.
Then he, “made great changes from lower to higher grades for himself and later for his friend, Gustavo razo, Jr.”
Razo paid Escalera “in cash” to make the changes, says the document.
Also See:
quarter of a million dollars – Jammie Thomas: her story in her own words, November 2, 2007
CSOonline – Profile of an inside job, November 2, 2007
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November 6th, 2007 at 11:50 am
For this kind of sentence I can kill some body.
November 6th, 2007 at 11:50 am
No justice no peace.
November 6th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Any ideas on how much Touro admins Andrique Baron and Mikhail Cherner got for their cash-for-grades scheme? (p2pnet post is at http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12808
Definitely, they should get more than 20 years… BUT, straight from the Manhattan DA:
“Computer Trespass, Commercial Bribe Receiving in the First Degree, Computer Tampering in the Third Degree, and Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree are all E felonies, which are punishable by up to four years in prison.”
http://www.manhattanda.org/whatsnew/press/2007-07-16.html