Student Arrested after Hacking into School's Computers to Change His Grades from Fs to As to win $7,000 scholarship

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Jacob Mahonri Espinal a former student of Brigham Young University-Idaho altered his college transcript from  an F to an A so that he could get $7,000 in academic scholarships, authorities reported.

 

Espinal was a student employee with access to a computer system that allowed him to change his status from being on academic probation to being a straight-A student.

 

He has been charged with two counts of computer fraud and one count of grand theft.

 

The 24-year-old remained in the Madison County Jail on $50,000 bond Wednesday after being charged November 9.