There’s an update on a case previously noted on this site and elsewhere involving a student hacking his school’s computer system and the city’s Education Department computers to change his grades. Frank Donnelly reports that Eric Walstrom of New Dorp pleaded guilty Wednesday in state Supreme Court, St. George, to felony and misdemeanor counts of computer tampering.
Under his agreement, he will enter a program through Mental Health Court, according to information from District Attorney Michael E. McMahon’s office.
If he does well in the program and graduates without further incident, the felony plea will be vacated and he’ll be sentenced on the misdemeanor conviction to probation or a conditional discharge, prosecutors said.
Read more on SILive.com.
Of note: where is the follow-up on why this kid was able to relatively easily hack the city education department’s computer system? To my knowledge, there still has been NO audit of IT security of the city education department systems that has looked at the security for employee and student personal information for more than a decade!