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Two teens facing felonies for allegedly hacking Madrid-Waddington school website, altering student records

Posted 4/27/15

MADRID -- Two teens are charged with a felony for allegedly hacking into the Madrid-Waddington Central School’s website using stolen passwords and altering student academic, disciplinary and …

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Two teens facing felonies for allegedly hacking Madrid-Waddington school website, altering student records

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MADRID -- Two teens are charged with a felony for allegedly hacking into the Madrid-Waddington Central School’s website using stolen passwords and altering student academic, disciplinary and attendance records.

State troopers say they arrested 17-year-old Mathew A. Hayes of Madrid and 18-year-old Nicholas K. Ladoceour of Waddington on Saturday, charging them with one count each of third-degree computer tampering.

“Some of the alterations included the deletion of some student discipline files, deletion of some student attendance files, and a change of some students' academic grades,” according to state police Troop B Public Information Officer Jennifer Fleishman. “It is unknown how exactly the teens hacked in, but they somehow obtained the passwords for many of the sites administrators.”

Each was released with an appearance ticket for Madrid Town Court on May 12 at 5 p.m.