WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 26 (UPI) -- A Purdue University student has been arrested for hacking into the school's computer system and changing his grades.
Purdue police said 23-year-old Mark B. Schneider of Batesville, Ind., was charge with computer tampering and trespassing Wednesday.
The Purdue News Service reports the senior hacked into the system to change his grades in an upper-level physics course.
He was held at the Tippecanoe County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bond.
A professor tipped police off when he noticed grades he posted weren't correct.
Schneider faces up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted of the Class D felony computer tampering charge and up to one year in prison and a $5,000 fine for the Class A misdemeanor charge of computer trespassing.
