"I don't believe any hardware issues were compromised, " Casey Robinson, the principal, told community radio station Ketchikan FM.

BBC: children at computers

The bridge involved would have connected the small town of Ketchikan with a sparsely populated island that has an airport.

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Sean Parnell, now governor, had asked what he should say about the project in a July 2007 appearance at a Ketchikan civic club.

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Associated Press said that at least 18 pupils were involved in the phishing, which gave them control over 300 computers allocated for student use at the school in the Alaskan town of Ketchikan.

BBC: children at computers