Two students from the Polytechnic University of Valencia were arrested, for allegedly having accessed the accounts of at least 40 professors and changed their grades.

Two students from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) have been arrested in Valencia, by the computer crime division of the National Police, when sneaking into the computer system of said university, after appropriating the passwords of some forty professors . The only objective was to get the grades up. According to the statement from the Spanish Armed Institute, the perpetrators of these crimes have illegally accessed the data and programs, causing computer damage, discovery and release of secrets, usurpation of civil status and document falsification. Those accused of these five crimes have been released, after having taken a statement.

Said investigation began after detecting a keylogger-type device, in one of the computers of said university, which is capable of detecting and collecting all the keystrokes that are made on the keyboards. Through this system, the detainees would have obtained the passwords of at least XNUMX university professors, also giving them access to personal emails. The detainees reportedly accessed the teachers' emails and personal accounts on the UPV network through TOR.

The Police have also detected that many of the exams and assignments, initially suspended, appeared as approved, in the official records of these two students. This was achieved, as reported, by changing the note within the computer system and intercepting the automated warning messages, when a value is changed in the computer system. This security measure alerts the teacher in question, in the event of any type of anomaly. When notifications were intercepted, no one detected the changes made.

The National Police Corps is also working to find out if these students could have had access to written tests, before they were carried out or what is the same, they were looking to find out if they would have had access to exams and tests. they would have been used for their own benefit and if they could have profited or benefited third parties.