Holiday, Florida, is apparently tough on crime as an eighth-grade boy at Paul R. Smith Middle School was charged with a felony for changing the digital wallpaper on the school computer of a teacher he did not like. The student claimed it was just a prank, but the sheriff claimed the boy hacked into the school’s “secure” computer network.

Secure? Seriously? Pasco County school district’s password policy practically seems like it’s the real crime as passwords are teachers’ last names. The school district is now allegedly “in the process of changing the network password.” The kid discovered the password while shoulder surfing, or watching the teacher type it in, reported the Tampa Bay Times.

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