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January 05, 2007, 12:43 PM ET
Jail Time for a Student Hacker
A University of Utah student has been sentenced to four months in prison for hacking into a mathematics-department campus-network account and changing his grades, reports the The Salt Lake Tribune.
The student, You Li, had earlier pleaded guilty to counts of fraud and unauthorized computer access. Mr. Li told authorities that in December 2004, he had broken into the math department's computer system, swiped his professor's password, opened a restricted spreadsheet, and changed "more than one" of his own grades.
Unfortunately for Mr. Li, the hacking that will send him to jail never even stood a chance of improving his grades: The spreadsheet he broke into was merely the backup version of a file the professor kept on his own laptop. --Brock Read
Categories: Legal-Troubles, Security
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