OC Teenagers Charged With Hacking School Computers
By Charlie Brett
13:12, June 18th 2008
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OC Teenagers Charged With Hacking School Computers

Instead of learning and working harder, two high school seniors took the easy road and hacked their school computers in order to change their grades. Their ultimate goal was to increase their chances of getting into college.

Omar Khan, 18 and Tanvir Singh, 18, were supposed to graduate from Tesoro High School in Mission Viejo on Tuesday, but they were arrested and charged with conspiracy, burglary, computer access and fraud and attempted altering of a public record. What were they thinking? They didn’t learn in high school but they wanted to get into collage to do what? Party?

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wasn’t the first time the two Orange County teens have broken into school. Apparently, Khan made a habit of breaking into school after hours. He used to change his Cs and Fs into As. I guess he thought highly of himself. He allegedly changed the grades of 12 other students. What a good friend!

Singh and Khan also thought that it would be easy to steal a test than actually study for the exam.

Orange County district attorney spokeswoman Susan Schroeder said that Khan was charged with 69 felony counts of altering and stealing public records, computer fraud, burglary, identify theft and receiving stolen property and conspiracy. If he gets convicted of all counts he could face up to 38 years in jail. Khan’s bail was set to $50,000.

His classmate Singh was charged with just one count of each felony. He has to turn himself Wednesday.

Beverly De Nicola, spokeswoman for the Capistrano Unified School District said that that the school district was not confronted before with this kind of situation and they were helping authorities with the investigation.

“We're really sad and disappointed that the charges have been filed against these students,” said De Nicola, according to The Los Angeles Times.



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