Yay! A thread I started is a hot topic!
Okay, here is one that happened to a friend of mine. For my advertising class, we had classwork on a server called blackboard.com. When our professor set up our account, our Net ID was both our login ID and password (Net ID's are used as e-mail addresses, so it is easy to obtain anyone's), and told us to change them right away.
You can send e-mail to other people in the class once you are logged on. Well, a friend of mine in our class never changed his, so someone went on his account and sent obscene messages to everyone in our class, including the professor and the TA's.
He explained to me what happened, but it is still pretty damn funny. People who don't know him at all (It is a 300+ person lecture) probably think he is a real sicko.
He reported it to the university, but I don't think he ever found out who did it. It is not on a University server, so there is nothing anyone can do to discipline the culprits. The next day, we all got a reminder that it is very important to change our passwords.
(By the way, I do not condone this prank at all, but many universities use blackboard if anyone cares to try it out. Either way, be sure to change your password!)
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