A 14-year-old middle school student in Holiday, Florida, was arrested this week and charged with "an offense against a computer system and unauthorized access," which is a felony, the Tampa Bay Times reported this week.
The student reportedly used an administrator password to log into a teacher's computer and change the background image to a photo of two men kissing.
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco suggested that the criminal charges relate to the level of access he had obtained by logging onto the network as an administrator, according to the report. For example, he could have seen the questions for the state's standardized tests, although Green said he didn't actually tamper with anything other than the teacher's PC background image, the report says.
Holiday, Florida's big-time hacker also revealed his secrets after he was caught – the password was the teacher's last name, and the teacher had typed it in in full view of the students. The student told the Times that many other students used these administrators' passwords (their teachers' last names) so they can screen-share and video chat with other students.
