Hacker Changes Grades- On Backup Files

Well the student was obviously not very smart in the first place or else he wouldn’t have to change his grades. But he must have been pretty dumb to change the grades in the backup files by mistake.

The judge took pity on him and sentenced him to four months. From the AP here:

SALT LAKE CITY – A University of Utah student who admitted hacking into a university computer system to change his grades was sentenced to four months in jail or a halfway house.

You Li, 22, admitted Thursday that he changed his grades in December 2004. His official record, however, remained the same because he had accessed a backup file.