Unauthorized Access to Confidential Data at Catholic School

A Catholic school board has taken action after learning a young hacker in accessed confidential records, including provincial test scores. John Mackle, education director at the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board, said the Grade 8 pupil at St. Anne's School in Peterborough's north end found his way -- via his laptop, a piece of downloaded software and the board's internal network -- into a board file server containing provincewide test results. "To be honest, I don't know that he would have understood what he was seeing," Mackle said.

"The information that he was able to see wouldn't have made a lot of sense to him."

Mackle said the incident occurred when the server in question, which isn't located at the school, was turned back on after undergoing a service upgrade.

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