Security News > 2021 > March > Mom & Daughter Duo Hack Homecoming Crown

A 17-year-old high school senior along with her mother, Laura Rose Carroll, were arrested this week, charged with accessing student records in a fraudulent attempt to rig her school's Homecoming Queen election.

The same district where her daughter attended Tate High School, the Washington Post reported.

Authorities were tipped off to the fake votes after the daughter bragged to other students about using her mom's access to "FOCUS," the district student-information system, to cast votes in the election for the school's Homecoming Court from student accounts, without their knowledge.

Tate High School's student body of about 2,000 had two days between Oct. 28 and 30 to cast their votes for Homecoming Court through "Election Runner," a system frequently used by the school for election-type activities.

On Oct. 31, Carroll's daughter was crowned Homecoming Queen, but the victory was short-lived.

Carroll met with the Escambia County School board on Nov. 4 about the alleged abuse of the school's student data.

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