13 Nevada students charged in grade-changing scheme, allegedly hacked into school computer

19-year-old Tyler Coyner is suspected of stealing the password to the grade system at Pahrump Valley High School and selling it to 12 other students.
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(CBS/AP) LAS VEGAS - It has been the dream of many a high school student to change his or her grades with the click of a button. Apparently, 13 Nevada students attempted to do just that, and they got busted.

Nye County sheriff's deputies arrested the teens, who were allegedly part of a hacking scheme that let them change their own grades on their high school computer system.

Police named 19-year-old Tyler Coyner as the ringleader of the group. He is suspected of stealing the password to the grading system at Pahrump Valley High School, and then selling it to at least 12 other students.

Coyner changed his grades enough to qualify as the school's salutatorian in 2010, when he graduated from high school, police say.

After he gave himself the grades to get into college, he teamed up with 19-year-old Matthew Miller and a third student who was not identified because he is a minor, to steal a television from a Walmart in Pahrump to take with them to college.