# Every school display in an Illinois district hijacked by a high school student

- Date: 2021-10-18
- Location: Illinois, USA
- Type: Screen hijack
- Sector: Education

A high school student in Illinois took over the networked displays in every school in the district and played a single song on them. The case was reported as a warning to anyone running networked digital signage.

## Sources

- [High School Student Hacks Entire School District's Screens, Then Rickrolls Viewers](https://www.sixteen-nine.net/?p=30782) (Invidis / Sixteen-Nine)
- [High school student hacks entire school district's screens, then rickrolls viewers](https://invidis.com/2021/10/18/high-school-student-hacks-entire-school-districts-screens-then-rickrolls-viewers/) (Sixteen:Nine / invidis)

Page: https://signagelist.org/incidents/2021-10-every-school-display-in-an-illinois-district/