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Ca: Criminals hack into high school computer system to access FBI, CIA

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Dissent

Hackers have been using a Bay Area school district’s computer system to try hack into top secret government agencies.

Like all school districts, the San Mateo Union High School District is heavily computerized with general public access and password only access to many of its files, but the district discovered a security breach after receiving a strange communication.

“It seems like a very strange communication because the United States Naval Intelligence contacted us and said that one of our servers had been compromised,” said Kirk Back, the district’s superintendent.

Read more on KTVU.com

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