19-year-old University of Nevada student Tyler Coyner has been accused by police of leading a group of thirteen students who have been charged hacking into Pahrump Valley High School’s network and changing the grades of Pahrump students for a fee. The activity supposedly took place over the course of two semesters.
Coyner was a student at Pahrump Valley High School, and according to a profile written on him by the Pahrump Valley Times, he graduated as salutatorian with a 4.54 grade point average, which, according to Nye County Sheriff’s Office, was also changed via nefarious digital means. When police raided Coyner’s dorm, they claim to have found a flat-screen television that was supposedly stolen from a local Wal-Mart, along with equipment for making fake IDs.
Coyner, along with the rest of the accused team and involved students, were charged with conspiracy, theft and computer intrusion.
(PC World via Boing Boing)
