SANTA ANA (CBSLA) – On Thursday, authorities introduced that 19-year-old Aaron Ketelaar was charged with illegally hacking into scholar Google Classroom accounts to put up racist and homophobic pictures, movies and feedback in courses at his former highschool.
Ketelaar allegedly hacked into a number of accounts at Villa Park Excessive College on Dec. 18, 2020, and posted racist pictures and feedback within the class announcement part, which had been viewable by the trainer and college students in that class, based on the Orange County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
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The 19-year-old was additionally suspected of hacking a scholar account and interrupting two courses with a video of an individual sporting a cranium masks, sun shades, beanie and headset utilizing racial epithets.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Division College Cell Evaluation and Useful resource Crew and the Orange Unified College District investigated the matter after the hacked posts had been reported in January. Ketelaar was recognized by investigators as having accessed the scholars’ accounts when the pictures, feedback and movies had been being posted.
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“Nobody needs to be subjected to the type of racist and homophobic messages despatched by these hackers underneath the pretense of being despatched by fellow classmates,” mentioned Orange County District Lawyer Todd Spitzer. “The anonymity of the web is aiding haters find different like-minded folks to assist them perform their racist acts within the hopes that they may be capable to slink away into the depths of the web with out their true identities being revealed.”
Ketelaar was charged with one felony rely of unauthorized pc entry together with a felony hate crime enhancement. He faces a most sentence of seven years in state jail if convicted on all counts.
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