LITTLE CHUTE — Police searching the residence of a 15-year-old boy who admitted hacking into the Little Chute School District's computers found a copy of the book "Internet for Dummies."
"He was self-taught and self-motivated in that regard," said Lt. Ray Lee of the Fox Valley Metro Police Department.
Lee said the boy, a Little Chute High School student, faces a juvenile criminal charge and school discipline.
"He was questioned and he confessed to hacking into the computers so he has been referred to juvenile intake on one count of violating the Wisconsin computer crimes statute," Lee said.
According to search warrant documents filed Feb. 26 in Outagamie County Circuit Court, the district called in a vendor to make repairs and they were able to determine the district's computers were accessed from an outside computer and traced the source to the 15-year-old's home.
Also, a subpoena of internet provider Time Warner Cable records traced IP address to the same Holland Road residence.
Police armed with a search warrant went to the home March 19 and seized the boy's computer equipment along with a copy of "Internet for Dummies."
The school district took its entire computer system down to make repairs, according to the search warrant affidavit.
"It cost the district several thousand dollars and a lot of time to do the fixes," Lee said.
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