Two 14-year-old boys in the ninth grade at Secaucus High School were arrested last Thursday, March 28 and charged with computer criminal activity and conspiracy to commit computer criminal activity, both third-degree crimes. The teens hacked into the school's WiFi, essentially shutting down the Internet at Secaucus High School and making it impossible for teachers to give web-based tests, or teach Internet-based curriculum, said Capt. Dennis Miller of the Secaucus police department. This happened on and off for several different days in March, a student at the high school told Patch. Both Secaucus middle school and the high school, which share a building, were paralyzed for a few days because of the hijacked Internet.
Teachers were unable to give tests on those days, or basically teach any lessons that relied on the use of the Internet. According to Miller, the students used a private company to hack into and disable the school's Wifi network. It seems to be a trend these days of students trying to outsmart their school's technology systems — but getting caught. Earlier this winter, students at Dickinson High School in Jersey City hacked into their school's computer system and changed their grades. And in March, high school students in the Elizabeth school district also hacked into the system and changed their grades, and were also caught. Students at Dickinson in Jersey City used keylogging software, which tracks which keys are hit on a keyboard. It's most often used to steal passwords.
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https://patch.com/new-jersey/secaucus/secaucus-9th-graders-hack-shut-down-internet-high-school
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