A former student at the University of California at Santa Barbara has been sentenced to six months in jail for breaking into the campus computer system to change her grades. The student, Nancy Ramirez, pleaded no contest to a felony count of illegally accessing a computer system as part of a deal that saw two other charges—for computer hacking and identity theft—dropped.
Ms. Ramirez was arrested in March, after police discovered that she had stolen professors’ personal information while performing her off-campus job at an insurance agency. She then used that data to reset the professors’ passwords and log into a campus grading database. (Associated Press)
