http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060119-041238-9321r 1/19/2006 WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A prestigious private school in Washington brought in the Secret Service to solve a computer caper. The Smoking Gun, also known as thesmokinggun.com, obtained a search warrant affidavit and other documents involving the instance of apparent computer hacking at the Georgetown Day School. The school's students include the children of high government officials and prominent members of the media. The investigation began when school officials learned that someone had used a teacher's school e-mail account to send messages to three male students. One was reportedly obscene while the other two included realistic details of poor classroom work by the recipients. The Secret Service and Justice Department investigators found that the account had been accessed through speakeasy.com and traced the its origins to a computer owned by a developer's wife well-known on the social scene. The agents raided the woman's home with a search warrant and seized two computers, an iPod and an external hard drive. No one has been arrested in connection with the e-mail. -=- http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0119062gds1.html Feds Probe D.C. School Prank Georgetown landmark raided after e-mail hack at tony institution JANUARY 19 -- Wow, you know your high school principal's strict when he sics the U.S. Secret Service on your teenage, prank-playing ass. That's what just happened at Georgetown Day School, a prestigious Washington, D.C. private school whose student body has included the offspring of politicians, White House officials, media heavyweights, and a Supreme Court justice. According to a January 6 search warrant application filed in U.S. District Court, a copy of which you can find below, principal Kevin Barr called in the feds after a teacher's e-mail account was "compromised and used to send e-mails to three students." [...] _________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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