Yeah, these two high-school girls are probably going to be looked upon by their fellow students in a completely different manner, but they may also face some charges. This hack of turning an hour-delay snow warning into a school-closed message not only affected students, but parents and faculty as well.

Two Ohio high-school students face expulsion and criminal charges after allegedly using their access to a Web server to post a notice that the local schools had closed due to snow.

The two girls, whose names were not released, appear to have used a password on Sunday, Feb. 4, to change the Edgewood School District’s notice of one-hour delay to “Edgewood Schools Closed,” according to media reports. The notice caused some parents to keep their children at home and caused others to criticize the school district’s apparent late-night decision to cancel classes.

“I didn’t make that call, and I’m the guy who does, so I knew something was up,” Tom York, superintendent of schools for Trenton, Ohio, told the Associated Press.[more]

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