Anonymous claims it hacked NISD website

Somone purportedly working with the hacker group Anonymous claims he took down Northside Independent School District's website on Saturday to protest the district's use of tracking badges, but the district's site was never compromised, a spokesman said.

According to Northside spokesman Pascual Gonzalez, someone apparently tried to hack NISD.net over the weekend but was unsuccessful.

“In the server log, there was a flurry of activity of people trying to get into the network,” Gonzalez said Sunday, “but they did not. There was never a compromise of information or a breach of security.”

In a statement posted online, the self-described teenager, who goes by the name @tr1xxyAnon on Twitter, said he took the site down because the district “is stripping away the privacy of students in your school.”

Northside has been testing a “radio frequency identification” tracking system at Jay High School and Jones Middle School to track attendance and maximize per-student funding from the state. Eventually, Northside could use the technology at all 112 campuses.

“Now it is your school and your rules, but you seen what I did to your website, and have a simple deal for you, weather you accept it or not, is up to you,” the statement reads. “If you still want to do this tracking idea on the students, at least have a meeting with each and every students parents, so they know what is going on.”

The writer then said he was giving the district up to three days to have a meeting with parents, and, “IF you do not hold this meeting and nothing happens, I will simply shut down your website, like I did last time. I hope you think carefully about what I have said.”

Gonzalez said the district would be monitoring servers with extra vigilance. He added that Northside will turn over whatever evidence they have to the appropriate law enforcement agency this week.

According to the Bexar County district clerk's office, a student sued Northside over the tracking tags on Wednesday, but details on the suit were not immediately available.

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