Tuesday, May 12, 2020

SECOND GRADER HACKS SYSTEM, SHOWS KIDS HOW TO ACCESS ANY STUDENT ACCOUNT

BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — The Palm Beach County School District is in the midst of a massive computer security crisis that draws into question the authenticity of every assignment completed by every student since “distance learning” began, after BocaNewsNow.com learned that an elementary school student hacked the school district’s password system.

We are not revealing the password convention that is used in the school district, but the second grader’s — you are reading that correctly, the second grader’s — hacking resulted in an emergency login change for “live” morning meetings in several elementary schools last week. It did not result — yet — in a district-wide reassignment of student passwords for the School District’s “Portal” which provides access to Google Classroom.
It is unclear if teachers and administrators were aware that the second grader’s hack potentially impacted the entire 176,000 student school district...

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