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Omar Khan, an 18-year-old student from Coto de Caza, California attempted to pull a move straight from the movie War Games. And I am not referring to the whole “lets play Global Thermonuclear War” incident, but instead the hacking into his schools computer to change his failing grades to passing grades. Mr. Kahn was “allegedly” changing his D’s and F’s to something a little more positive, A’s. Wow, talk about an improvement, you would think he would have settled to at least pass and just move them up to a C in an effort to avoid detection. But instead he went all the way up, because it seems his intention was not only to avoid failing and the potential summer school, but to get into a good college. I can only assume that he would have continued to hack his grades after he started college as well.

Then to make matters worse, he also changed the “transcripts of at least 12 other students” from his school as well as installed a malware program so he would not have to worry about gaining access to the computers in the future. His criminal behavior came to an end when he requested a copy of his transcript, possibly to mail off to one of those colleges he had hoped to get into, you would have thought that with his regular access he would have taken care of the printing himself.

What really gets me is that, assuming you are smart (and I use that term loosely, because he did get caught) enough to do this, why could he not have just studied and actually passed the classes in the first place.

As a result of his actions he has been charged with 69 felony counts that include identity theft, computer fraud, falsifying a public record and second degree burglary. All said and done he is facing up to 38-years behind bars. At least he will not have to worry about getting into college any more.

Via [CrunchGear]