TX: Socorro Independent School District student charged with breach of the district’s computer system
Ashleigh Rodriguez reports:
The Socorro Independent School District spent $8,000 this weekend, cleaning up a number of Eastlake High computers. A student downloaded malware, or a malicious program to the school’s computer system.
[…]After spending the weekend checking 1,000 computers, they found out he had only infected 16. Reyna said he was attempting to copy log-ins and passwords, with the intent of identify theft. The student was arrested and charged with breach of computer systems.
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