Cyber-hacking SI student changed grades from his smartphone: cops

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http://nypost.com/2015/02/27/cyber-hacking-si-student-changed-grades-from-his-smartphone-cops/

By Frank Rosario, Erin Calabrese and Natalie O'Neill
The New York Post
February 27, 2015

He’s pretty brilliant for a kid with bad grades.

A tech-savvy Staten Island high-school student who studied advanced 
computer programming at an NYU camp used his skills to hack into a secure 
computer system and improve his scores, sources told The Post Thursday.

Eric Walstrom, 16, a junior at New Dorp HS, made it past a password 
barrier and software security system using a computer in the school and 
set up the network so he could access it from his smartphone, the sources 
said.

Between Dec. 14 and Feb. 9, he pulled up his report cards and transcripts 
and “changed those grades,” according to a criminal complaint. “You’d 
think a kid smart enough to hack his school’s computers would already have 
good grades. Maybe the DOE should hire him to expose weaknesses in their 
security firewalls,” a law-enforcement source said.

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