Thames Valley School Board Breach: Teen Charged for Password Exposure

It'll take the London region's public school board more than three weeks to fix a privacy breach created in about an hour - way too long for a basic security feature, says one technology specialist. London police criminally charged a 15-year-old self-described hacker with breaking into the Thames Valley District school board's website and exposing the passwords of 27,000 high school students on Oct. 23. It was the largest security breach in the board's history.

Ordinarily, conviction on the four charges the youth faces could lead to as many as 10 years in prison, depending how the Crown proceeds.

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