CHULA VISTA: Sweetwater Union High School District's computer system has been breached and its passwords are being changed Thursday, a district spokeswoman said.
There is no evidence that any information was altered, Lillian Leopold, Sweetwater's director of grants and communications, said.
Leopold said that Chula Vista police informed school officials Wednesday that individual student schedules were found in a student's backpack, indicating unauthorized access to student information.
Leopold said a teacher had left a password visible on a note stuck to a computer. Whoever acquired the schedules got access only to what one teacher could view on the computer.
The district is changing passwords on its e-mail system, its student information system that includes contact information and its test scores and other academic data.
Six Rancho Bernardo High School students were suspended late last month after school officials discovered a cheating scandal that involved hacking into the computer system. In that case in Poway Unified School District, grades were changed and tests were accessed.
Leopold emphasized that there was no evidence that any information in Sweetwater's computer system was changed, that this was not a hacking case and that the police investigation is continuing.
She she did not know at which of the district's 23 middle and high schools the breach occurred.
Chris Moran: (619) 498-6637; chris.moran@uniontrib.com
