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Teen who hacked Miami-Dade schools won’t go to jail

MIAMI – The teenager who confessed to hacking Miami-Dade schools’ online network at the beginning of the school year won’t face any jail time.

David Oliveros, 17, reached a deal in court Friday morning.

The start of online learning in Miami-Dade was full of issues this past fall when no one could access one of the online platforms.

Oliveros, 16 at the time, was arrested and confessed to what the school district called eight different distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattacks.

Since then, the teen has been with his parents, and on Friday he reached an agreement with a judge for a deal that would withhold adjudication and give him one year of probation, while also requiring him to enroll in a program for troubled youth.

The judge then set his final hearing for one month from Friday for his official sentencing.

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