Two teenagers from Orange County, California have been caught attempting to change their grades by breaking into the school’s computers and installing spyware.

The 18-year-old Omar Khan faces up to 38 years and four months in prison if he will be convicted on all 69 felony counts, which include identity theft, receiving stolen property, computer fraud, altering and stealing public records, burglary and conspiracy.

According to the case’s prosecutors, for several months starting with January, Khan used a stolen master key to break into the Teroso High School in Rancho Santa Margarita after classes and by using some of his teachers’ passwords, he used to hack the computer and change his grades from Cs and Fs into unmerited As in Spanish, Calculus and English.

Khan is also responsable for modifying the grades of 12 other students, for installing some spyware components that allowed him to use the school computer from any location and also for stealing tests before they were scheduled for release.

Tanvir Singh, Khan’s friend, has also been charged with conspiracy and burglary but faces a much easier penalty of three years in prison.

The police was announced about the case by the school's administrators who noticed the questionable change in Khan's usualy mediocre grades. The investigation continues as the general belief is that there are several other students involved in the project.

The police officials appeared rather surprised of the sophisticated schemes pulled off by the teenages but stated that the two surely wish to have invested all that effort into studying.

Khan is currently in jail, waiting for his parents to pay the $50,000 bail set by the court. Unfortunately, his family might be thinking of teaching him a harsh lesson by letting him sleep on it for a few days behind bars.