http://www.oregonlive.com/metrosouthwest/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_southwest_news/1139291813243370.xml&coll=7 MAYA BLACKMUN February 07, 2006 Two Tigard High School students face possible expulsion after harassing phone calls were made over the weekend to five teachers using home numbers placed on the Web by a student hacker last week, officials said. Susan Stark Haydon, a spokeswoman for the Tigard-Tualatin School District, would not identify the students, citing privacy concerns of minors. She said they face discipline up to expulsion for violating the district's policy on threats of violence, hazing, harassment, intimidation, bullying and menacing. The latest incident follows that of another student who hacked into the school's computer system and placed a slew of personal information on the Web. "It's been a painful learning experience," principal Pam Henslee said, "and we hope that students know this is serious business." She would not describe the calls but said they were considered harassment because of their content, repetition and unwelcome nature. Some teachers reported getting calls nonstop in the middle of the night for two to three hours, only to have the calls stop and start up again the next day. After the teachers reported the phone calls Monday morning, Henslee got on the school's intercom and asked students for help. Two students were identified, and they admitted making the calls, she said. They used information posted sometime during the night of Jan. 30 by another Tigard High student that included the roster of the approximately 100-person school staff, staffers' month and day of birth, home and cell phone numbers, home addresses, 18 e-mail passwords along with two network administration passwords, and the combinations of the school's approximately 2,000 lockers, which subsequently had to be changed. Jim Wolf, a Tigard Police Department spokesman, said the hacking case is under investigation. If teachers want to pursue criminal charges, they would have to report the harassment to police where they live. _________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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