Nevada College Kid Arrested For Fixing High School Report Cards

In the video above is Nevada student Tyler Coyner giving a speech at his 2010 high school graduation. How did he get there? By fixing his grades to finish second in his class.

Now a freshman at the University of Nevada-Reno, he was reportedly the ringleader among a group of 12 other kids all charged with conspiracy, theft, and computer intrusion for raising the grades' of classmates for cash while attending Pahrump Valley High School. Coyner, it seems, has the makings of a career petty criminal: police also found a stolen flat-screen TV and fake-ID production equipment in his dorm room.

In playing heroes to their fellow high schoolers, the crew didn’t exactly undertake the kind of hacking that would make Kevin Mitnick proud. Instead, Coyner simply found a password to his school’s grading system.

Regardless, Coyner may serve as an inspiration to resourceful high school kids everywhere who now, upon reading this, can’t help but think, “How vulnerable is my school’s computer system?" —Devin Chanda

[via Gawker]