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WA: Vancouver student expelled for hacking high school email system

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Dissent

KPTV reports:

A Vancouver Public School District spokesperson said Skyview High School email system was hacked early Tuesday morning by a student.

Communications Director Patricia Nuzzo said the student was “emergency expelled” until appropriate disciplinary action can be determined.

Nuzzo added the student hacked into a teacher email account and sent six different messages to more than 50,000 blanket email addresses, a large majority were not valid email addresses.

According to Skyview senior Avery Schmidt, the email said, “make America great again.”

Read more on KPTV.

Well, I would have expelled him for that message even if he had the teacher’s permission to use the email account, but that’s another issue…

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