Charges dropped against Palm Beach County School hacker
Charges were dismissed on Thursday against a 19-year-old Inlet Grove High student charged with hacking the Palm Beach County School District's computers.
Ryan Duncan, of Palm Beach Gardens, has agreed to pay $2,025 in investigative costs and complete 100 hours of community service. He also has to write a letter of apology to the district. Under the agreement overseen by Circuit Judge Lucy Chernow-Brown, the 100 hours of community can be waived if Duncan agrees to work with the school district and a create a program on the seriousness of computer crime.
Investigators believe Duncan illegally obtained a password that allowed him to access district servers. Duncan may have received the login information by looking over the shoulder of a computer technician who was working at Inlet Grove High School in Riviera Beach, where the teen is a student, district spokesman Nat Harrington said in an April interview.
