Students Gain Early Access to 2004 HSC Results

Friday, December 17, 2004

Sydney, Australia — Approximately 100 students gained access to their Higher School Certificate results, before the official release date of Friday 17th December 2004. Police are pursuing the matter.

The access was gained through the Board of Studies website. To read their results, the student required a .zip archive, which was being distributed among students using the Internet. This archive seems to have contained a URL. This URL was either directly to the board of studies site, or to a script/site which allowed as student to enter information then assembled a URL to the board of studies site, allowing students to view their results early.

References

ABC News Staff. "Student accesses HSC results early" — ABC Online, December 15, 2004
AAP News Staff. "Police probe HSC results breach" — SMH, December 15, 2004
stmok. Security: students found their HSC results in early. <broken link> — TechWatch Forums, December 15, 2004
Eight. "hsc results leaked early" — Whirlpool Forums, December 15, 2004
Unknown. "Screen Shot" — Board of Studies Website, On or before December 15, 2004
Can someone provide links to archives of forums where the ZIP file was being passed around and discussion of results was occurring?

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