MIAMI – The teen who confessed to hacking Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ online learning system in the fall was sentenced Friday to one year of probation, with a judge also requiring him to enroll in a program for troubled youth.
Last month, Oliveros reached a deal in court to avoid jail time, but the official sentencing didn’t come until Friday.
He responded: “That’s what I plan to do, your honor.”The first couple days of online learning in Miami-Dade were full of issues when access was blocked to one of the platforms the district was using.
Oliveros, who was 16 at the time, was eventually arrested and confessed to what school officials called eight different distributed denial of service (DDOS) cyberattacks.
And I apologize to my deepest condolences to everyone that has been affected by this in any way.”