Felony charges for teen hackers

Two high school seniors in California were charged with “breaking into their school late at night and using stolen log-ins to hack into its computer system and change their grades,” eCommerce Times reports. One faces a maximum sentence of more than 38 years for “34 felony counts of altering a public record, 11 felony counts of stealing and secreting a public record, seven felony counts of computer access and fraud, six felony counts of burglary, four felony counts of identity theft, three felony counts of altering a book of records, two felony counts of receiving stolen property, one felony count of conspiracy and one felony count of attempted altering of a public record.” The other student faces a maximum of three years for “one felony count each of conspiracy, burglary, computer access and fraud, and attempted altering of a public record.”