American woman arrested for hacking school website to change kids' grades

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A Pennsylvania woman allegedly changed her children's grades after logging into a school computer system using passwords obtained when she worked for the district. Investigators say Catherine Venusto used the Northwestern Lehigh School District superintendent's password to change the grades. She was arraigned Wednesday on a half-dozen felony counts and released on bail. Officials say Venusto changed a failing grade to a medical exception for her daughter in 2010, when she was still a district secretary. The New Tripoli woman is also accused of bumping one of her son's grades from 98 to 99 percent in February. State police say Venusto admitted changing the grades, saying she thought her actions were unethical but not illegal. According to investigators, Venusto illegally accessed the school district’s human resources system between August 23, 2010 and February of 2012 using the passwords of the superintendent and nine other district employees - most of them in the guidance department, Lehigh Valley Live said. Venusto’s suspected hacking spree came to an end when on February 24, Assistant Superintendent Jennifer Holman reported that a former employee allegedly accessed the district's computer system. Called from DAILY MAIL