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The thread discusses news about a former student pleading guilty for a malware scheme targeting college PCs to steal faculty/alumni databases, alter grades, and siphon funds, using thumb drives to spread the malware. The main implicit questions are how IT failed to detect the compromise earlier and what role others’ actions played in getting the culprit caught. Overall sentiment is focused and serious, with readers reacting to the apparent gap in detection and the breach’s extent.
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A former college student has admitted taking part in a criminal scheme that used malware to steal and sell large databases of faculty and alumni, change grades, and siphon funds from other students' accounts.

He used thumbdrives with malware he created to compromise the machines. At first, I assummed the IT Department had caught on, but it was a colleague who turned on him.

Read Full Story: Man infects college PCs to steal huge database ? The Register
 

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