Two Orange County teenagers have been charged with breaking into school computers, installing spyware and altering grades. Omar Khan and Tanvir Singh, both 18-years old, face more than just a trip down to the Principal’s office as they are both charged for breaking into and then hacking Tesoro High School computers in Orange County California.

Singh faces up to three years in prison if convicted of one felony count each of conspiracy, burglary, computer access and fraud, as well as attempted altering of a public record, said Farrah Emami of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

Between Jan. 23, 2008, and May 20, 2008, Kahn is accused of unlawfully breaking and entering into locked rooms at Tesoro High School in Rancho Santa Margarita, where he was a senior, on several occasions late at night and on weekends to access school computers to change his grades.

He is accused of altering current test scores from Advanced Placement (AP) classes and school records from previous semesters, often changing grades of “C,” “D,” or “F” to “A.”

The two young men exchanged a series of text messages on May 19, in which they allegedly plotted to break into a teacher’s classroom with the intention to commit “larceny and unlawful access of a computer network” and to “steal, remove and secrete a public record.” The transcript of the text messages are detailed in the Orange County Superior Court documents.