--- title: 8th Grader's Felony Charges for Changing Teacher's Computer Background description: Pranksters be warned canonical: https://time.com/3817582/boy-arrested-computer-background/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-10T17:03:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:38.160Z og:title: 8th Grader Changes Teacher's Computer Background, Arrested og:description: Pranksters be warned og:url: https://time.com/3817582/boy-arrested-computer-background/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 8th Grader Changes Teacher's Computer Background, Arrested twitter:description: Pranksters be warned twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 8th Grader Faces Felony Charges for Changing Teacher's Computer Background by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Apr 10, 2015 5:03 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Apr 10, 2015 5:03 PM UTC Eight-grader Domanik Green was arrested on felony charges in Holiday, Fla. Wednesday after breaking into his teacher’s computer to change the background picture to two men kissing. Green, 14, who was released the day of his arrest, said that he broke into the computer of teacher he didn’t like after realizing that faculty members’ passwords were simply their last names, the [Tampa Bay](http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/middle-school-student-charged-with-cyber-crime-in-holiday/2224827)[ _Times_](http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/middle-school-student-charged-with-cyber-crime-in-holiday/2224827)reports. Green, who previously faced a three-day suspension for a similar prank, said that many students got in trouble for breaking into teachers’ computers. “Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might have done,” Sheriff Chris Nocco told the Tampa Bay _Times_ Thursday. One of the computers Green “hacked” contained encrypted 2014 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) questions, although the police say he didn’t view those files. “If information comes back to us and we get evidence \[that other kids have done it\], they’re going to face the same consequences,” Nocca said. \[[_Tampa Bay Times_](http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/middle-school-student-charged-with-cyber-crime-in-holiday/2224827)\] 8th Grader's Felony Charges for Changing Teacher's Computer Background ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3817582/boy-arrested-computer-background/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3817582/boy-arrested-computer-background/"},"headline":"8th Grader Faces Felony Charges for Changing Teacher's Computer Background","datePublished":"2015-04-10T17:03:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:38.160Z","description":"Pranksters be warned","url":"https://time.com/3817582/boy-arrested-computer-background/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","Crime","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3817582/boy-arrested-computer-background/","name":"8th Grader Faces Felony Charges for Changing Teacher's Computer Background"}}]}] ```