Although I graduated several years ago, I don't doubt such a thing happened.
Would you believe that they actually used your initials and the last 4 digits of your social security # as a hard-coded unchangeable password for all staff, faculty, and administrative accounts, assumable some with access to this stolen information?
For the students, at least when I was there, the last 4 digits were substituted with the last 4 digits of your student ID. As you an imagine, this also was about as secure as the last 4 digits of your credit card number.
Rumor has it that many years ago someone hacked the system and changed the principal's paycheck to 86 cents in resemblance of the school district #. Figures.
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Although I graduated several years ago, I don't doubt such a thing happened. Would you believe that they actually used your initials and the last 4 digits of your social security # as a hard-coded unchangeable password for all staff, faculty, and administrative accounts, assumable some with access to this stolen information? For the students, at least when I was there, the last 4 digits were substituted with the last 4 digits of your student ID. As you an imagine, this also was about as secure as the last 4 digits of your credit card number. Rumor has it that many years ago someone hacked the system and changed the principal's paycheck to 86 cents in resemblance of the school district #. Figures.