Daedong High School Student Involved in 'Answer Sheet Leak' Fails Only English Subject

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] It has been revealed that students at Gwangju Daedong High School were unable to extract English exam answers because the malware did not execute due to security reasons.

On the 27th, the Gwangju Western Police Station announced the results of an investigation into second-year Daedong High School students A and B, who are suspected of obstruction of business and trespassing.

The two students are accused of implanting malware on teachers' computers (10 to 15 units) via portable USB storage devices about 10 times from March to July, stealing exam answers for subjects they were taking, or attempting to do so.

They secretly entered the teachers' office after night self-study hours, implanted malware "payloads" on the computers, and remotely controlled them to leak the answers.

When the malware malfunctioned, they directly plugged in the USB to extract the data, which is estimated to have taken up to about 4 hours.

They obtained exam questions and answers for a total of 16 subjects during the first semester: 7 subjects for midterms (3 common, 4 elective) and 9 subjects for finals (5 common, 4 elective).

Each student took 8 subjects in the midterm and final exams, with different elective subjects.

However, the English subject (common test) answer leakage failed because the malware did not operate properly. It was found that one English teacher's computer, which had a different password system from other teachers, was not penetrated by the firewall at all.

The unstable malware was reportedly obtained from the internet and they tried to modify it through direct programming but failed.

The police plan to close the case within next week unless additional accomplices or further crimes are discovered, and believe that the school should improve its poor management through internal audits.

The students' unauthorized access was possible because Daedong High School did not activate the security system after space rearrangement construction around mid-January this year. The police stated, "It is difficult to say that such poor management could have predicted the answer leakage incident." They also explained that it is difficult to apply the charge of dereliction of duty, which punishes only intentional offenders, to school officials.

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