An ‘F’ in Computer Ethics

A student at the University of California at Santa Barbara faces four felony charges after allegedly breaking into a computer system to change several people’s grades, including her own. Campus police officers have accused Nancy Ramirez of stealing professors’ personal information in her off-campus job at an insurance agency, and of using that information to reset their passwords and log into a campus grading database.

Campus officials say they have restored all of the altered grades. Despite the break-in, they say, their online grading system remains secure, and no student’s personal information was exposed.