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Four Month Sentence for Utah College Hacker

An AP newswire article, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

A University of Utah student who admitted hacking into a university computer system to change his grades was sentenced to four months in jail or a halfway house.

You Li, 22, admitted Thursday that he changed his grades in December 2004. His official record, however, remained the same because he had accessed a backup file. Li said he used a software program to decrypt the password on the math department's computer system and then found a professor's password.

posted by Fergie @ 1/05/2007 06:51:00 PM