A Florida college student has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for his part in a failed scheme to change his own grades and those of others on the Florida A & M University computer network.
Christopher Jacquette and two accomplices installed keystroke loggers on university computers, stole login credentials and used them to access accounts that allowed them to change grades.
The trio’s activities left enough digital footprints to allow auditors to identify them.
The three also used their unauthorized access to change some people’s residency status to reduce the amount of their fees.
Jacquette must also serve three years of supervised release following completion of his prison term. One of the other defendants, Lawrence Secrease, has pleaded guilty and a jury convicted the third, Marcus Barrington. Neither has been sentenced.
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