Iris Wallace
A number of Webster Groves High School students and staff had their emails hacked by an unknown phisher. Many were fooled by the phisher when they were sent a fake Google document via email. When they clicked on the email, they were prompted to sign in to their accounts, unknowingly giving their information to the hacker.
Sophomore Ava Olsen was a victim of the hacking. After logging into her email account, the phisher deleted her entire email, and her computer was temporarily unusable with no account to do work on. Olsen said that this experience “really set me back” because she could not do any digital schoolwork. Olsen also said that during the process of getting a new account, she had to get a new email password that was different from her lunch PIN.
Olsen noted that when she got her new email address, she somehow was able to see all of the emails that the hacker had sent out to others. She couldn’t see any emails that were being sent to her from teachers because the phisher had changed the settings on her account to make all new emails go straight to the trash…