Sometimes it appears that the influence of the 1983 film “War Games” continues to hold sway with people.
Sometimes, it doesn’t end so well.
From My Fox Houston:
A 17-year-old Cy-Fair ISD student is facing a felony charge after he allegedly hacked into the district’s computer security network and caused more than $10,000 in damage.
Cy-Fair High School student Richard Alan Urban is scheduled to appear in court April 13 on a charge of computer security breach, a state jail felony.
The odd thing that I found with this article, about this apparently hapless student from Houston, was that at the end of the article it says that “The breach only slowed down the servers.” However earlier in this passage, “By the next day, more users had been deleted from the network, so the school district’s technical team began searching for a possible hacker.”
I have the distinct impression that they do not in fact have a clear grasp on what this person was allegedly able to access. I’m imagining that this will come out in the wash later.
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