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. The link for this article located at Toronto Sun is no longer available. . An eighth-grade pupil infiltrated a Catholic educational institution's network, jeopardizing sensitive data and triggering security alerts.. Grade 8 Hacker, School System Breach, Confidential Data Access. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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