Two High School Students Caught Hacking Teacher's Computer to Steal Exams and Answer Sheets

Unauthorized Entry into the Faculty Office and Crime Committed During Late Night Hours

The scene of Daedong High School in Seo-gu, Gwangju, where a teacher's computer was hacked and exam papers were leaked.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Wooseok] Two high school students at a high school in Gwangju were caught by the police for hacking a teacher's computer and stealing final exam questions and answer sheets.

On the 26th, the Gwangju Seobu Police Station booked two second-year students of Gwangju Daedong High School, including student A, without detention on charges of trespassing and obstruction of business.

Student A and the other student are suspected of recently breaking into the teachers' office before the final exams, installing malicious software on teachers' computers, and stealing exam questions and answer sheets.

It was investigated that they broke into the teachers' office through a window during late-night hours after the teachers had left. It is also known that they had identified the teachers' seats in advance before the break-in.

The police confirmed that student A and others stole not only the exam questions and answer sheets but also data such as computer work screens.

The malicious software used in the crime was created by one of the students booked. It is reported that the student learned how to create it through the internet.

The police began investigating following a report from the school that some of the questions or answers from the first semester final exams for second-year students at Daedong High School, held from the 11th to the 13th, appeared to have been leaked to specific students.

Subsequently, evidence was secured at student A's residence, and after obtaining a confession, one classmate was additionally booked as an accomplice.

According to the Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education, student A scored 100 points each in Earth Science and Mathematics II, 93 points in Korean History, and 86 points in Life Science on this final exam.

In the case of Life Science, the correct answers to four questions were changed after the exam was created, but student A wrote down the answers before the change, resulting in four incorrect answers. The school, suspicious of student A writing the pre-change correct answers consecutively, requested a police investigation, which led to the crime being uncovered.

Meanwhile, the police are considering applying additional charges for violations of the Information and Communications Network Act.

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