11 high school students expelled for keylogging teachers’ computers
Police: local tutor directed installation of keylogger to goose students' grades.
Corona del Mar sits on an idyllic part of the Orange County coastline.
A hacking scandal involving keyloggers and electronic grade-changing at a high school in Newport Beach, a well-to-do area of Southern California, has resulted in the expulsion of 11 students. TheOrange County Register reported Wednesday that six of those students had already left the district, but five had been transferred to another local school.
“The Board’s action imposes discipline upon these students for the maximum allowed by the Education Code for what occurred at Corona del Mar High School,” Laura Boss, the Newport Mesa Unified School District spokesperson wrote in a statement on Wednesday.
US News and World Report ranked the high school in question as the 46th best within California.
However The Daily Pilot, a local newspaper, reported that this isn't the first time the school has been associated with cheating: "Two years ago, 10 Corona del Mar students bought answers for a history test on Amazon.com. One student was accused of attempting to sell the answers to classmates. A 17-year-old Corona del Mar senior was arrested in 2004 after being accused of changing grades in the school's computer system for other students."
Read the rest of the article here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/11-high-school-students-expelled-for-keylogging-teachers-computers/
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