K12> Attn: Admins - 13 year old hacker wiped out school records

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Date:         Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:51:18 -0500
From:         "K.Ellis" <guavaberry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:      Attn: Admins - 13  year old hacker wiped out school records
To:           K12ADMIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Attn Admins:

Educational CyberPlayGround
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/

SEE Technology for Admins
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/admin.html

ADMINS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SECURITY

HACKERS -- TOOLS -- RESOURCES -- TROUBLE FINDERS
-- PRIVACY -- CENSORSHIP -- ARTICLES -- FILTERING
COPYRIGHT / COPYLEFT -- ISSUES -- COMPANIES -- HISTORY

Mr. Larry Bowersox, Superintendent
lbower@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.nrcs.k12.oh.us/contacts.htm
notice how all email address on this site are exposed to robots.

-----------nrcs.k12.oh.us Website Webmaster--------

Jack Henry
Computer Network Technician
North Ridgeville City Schools
5490 Mills Creek Lane
North Ridgeville, OH. 44039
(440) 327-2438
<mailto:jhenry@xxxxxxxxx>jhenry@xxxxxxxxx
"Did you backup your data today?"
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Jack Henry
http://www.leeca.org/ and their services http://www.leeca.org/Service/

REQUEST FOR DISTRICT SERVER STATIC IP ADDRESS
http://www.leeca.org/Service/forms/TempDistrictServerStatic061901.doc
Super's sig is required.

"Did you backup your data today?" :-)

Example of Accelerated Reading Student Records I found on the net
http://www.sumter.k12.fl.us/schools/ssm/Programs/Media/P-T%20AR%20List%2010-03.xls
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School officials: 13-year-old hacker wiped out school records from computer
system
<http://www.morningjournal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11111924&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46371&rfi=6>
MICHAEL C. FITZPATRICK
Morning Journal Writer
03/11/2004

NORTH RIDGEVILLE -- A middle school student hacked into a server that
stored records for a computerized student reading program and deleted
the files sometime last week, according to North Ridgeville schools
Superintendent Larry Bowersox.

The 13-year-old boy is currently serving a 10-day suspension and
school officials were expected to meet with his parents today to
determine if he would be expelled, according to school officials.

''This student made a conscious choice and willfully destroyed
property. That's vandalism, that's a serious act and that's something
we can't tolerate,'' said Bowersox.

The files deleted were associated with a reading program called
Accelerated Reader, Bowersox said. The files destroyed ''document and
store student progress'' in the reading program, Bowersox said.

No confidential student information was deleted, Bowersox said. He
said that information is stored on a different server.

The district is also looking into whether other students were involved
in the hacking, school officials said.

Bowersox declined to give any information about the student, saying he
would be in violation of student confidentiality laws.

Bowersox said the number of files deleted numbered in ''the
hundreds.''

Principal John Komperda

Mr. John Komperda, Middle School (440-353-1180)
<mailto:jkomp@xxxxxxxxx>jkompe@xxxxxxxxx
told the Associated Press that a substitute
teacher allowed the eighth-grader to use a classroom computer after
completing an assignment on March 2.

Bowersox said the problem was detected Thursday when students were
unable to retrieve their own reading files.

Students and their parents in the North Ridgeville schools are
required to sign an ''acceptable use'' form to use the computers,
Bowersox said.

Bowersox said the investigation is ongoing and the school is examining
how its servers are safeguarded.

''We had used the normal safeguards that are built into that program
but as a result of this incident we are looking into developing
additional safeguards, passwords or whatever we need to protect that
information,'' said Bowersox.


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