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NZ: Students get porn message after high school’s email hacked

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Dissent

Stuff reports:

Student emails have been suspended at Mt Albert Grammar after a security breach led to porn being sent to every student.

An official message was sent to parents on Monday night apologising for any offence caused.

Principal Dale Burden said they believed the culprit was most likely to be a student at the school and if so that amounted to serious misconduct.

The school was first alerted by a parent who saw the email which contained a link to a pornographic image.

Read more on Stuff.

Okay, but how did the student hack/gain access to the system? And what else could the student have accessed via that login or method?


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