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A former student at the University of South Wales has been sentenced to 20 months in prison, after hacking into the institution’s computer systems and selling the answers to exam papers for thousands of pounds.
As BBC News reports, 29-year-old Hayder Ali Jasim (sometimes known as Hayder Aljayyash), was studying for a master’s degree in embedded system design at the University of South Wales when he succeeded in gaining unauthorised access to examination papers, coursework, marking and reports.
During lectures in the university’s engineering and computer science faculty, Jasim deployed keyloggers that secretly recorded keypresses, and stored them in a file. In this way, he was able to steal the passwords of university staff.
Between November 2018 and May 2019, Jasim was said to have used the stolen credentials to log in more than 700 times, downloading 216 files.
Jasim monetised the stolen information by working working alongside his fellow student and housemate accomplice, 30-year-old Noureldien Eltarki, who sold copies of the exam papers and answer sheets to students for thousands of pounds.
The hack was only discovered when mathematics lecturer Liam Harris noticed that a number of students had made spelling errors in their answers which matched mistakes the lecturer had made himself on his official answer sheet.
A subsequent investigation into the suspected cheating revealed that login accounts belonging to 17 members of staff had been compromised, and an IP address was linked to a property not far from the university’s campus.
Police arrested Jasim on May 30 2019, and computing equipment and £17,000 worth of cash were seized at the property. A significant amount of stolen university data was subsequently found on the computers found at the address which Jasim shared with Eltarki.
In an interview with the police, Eltarki confessed that he had sold exam scripts to students for as much as £6,500 – with most of the proceeds going to Jasim.
The court was told that the university’s investigation into its data breach, and the subsequent new security measures it had introduced, had cost it over £100,000.
That’s clearly a lot of money for any educational organisation to find itself having…
One second-year student paid him £6,500
A man made £20,000 by hacking into a uni and selling exam answers to students – but has now been jailed for 20 months after his exploits were discovered.
Hayder Aljayyash cracked the University of South Wales’ computer systems while studying for a master’s, and sold the papers for thousands. One second-year paid him £6,500.
Embedded system design student Aljayyash enlisted an accomplice, his housemate Noureldien Eltarki, to find students to buy the hacked answers, and paid him £300-£400 for every student he found.
The venture was only discovered when a lecturer realised students were regurgitating answers from his mark scheme. Maths lecturer Liam Harris even realised five students had copied spelling mistakes from his model papers.
By that time, Aljayyash had used staff log-in details to get into the university network nearly 700 times, using a keylogger in different classrooms to collect passwords.
The University of South Wales estimated that the crimes cost it over £100,000. It set up a “war room” to investigate the hack and had to pay for new security measures.
After the lecturer became suspicious, the university went through 140 million log records and eventually detected an IP address linked to the house where Aljayyash and Eltarki were living.
Police arrested Aljayyash on 30th May 2019, and seized £17,000 in cash, USB sticks and a laptop which held files matching those downloaded from the university.
At the trial, Cardiff Crown Court heard that Aljayyash had since moved to Doncaster and was volunteering to help asylum seekers use the internet.
However, judge Wynn Morgan said the scheme was “planned and consistent” and motivated by “financial greed”.
Eltarki’s lawyer, Susan Ferrier, said he realised he had made as “stupid a decision as he could have.” The judge told him it was clear the scheme was not his idea, but his part in it was “self-evidently wrong”.
Eltarki, who is from Libya, plead guilty to agreeing to sell unlawfully obtained exams. He was given a nine-month suspended sentence and ordered to undertake 200 hours of unpaid work.
Aljayyash, who is an asylum seeker from Iraq, pleaded guilty…