Two Edgewood High School students were arrested Thursday and accused of hacking into the school district’s Web site to schedule an unplanned – and unauthorized – snow day.

School officials had originally planned a one-hour delay for Monday morning, following an established procedure, so they were surprised to see an announcement Sunday night that classes were canceled.

“We immediately looked at ourselves, because we thought someone pushed the wrong button,” said Superintendent Tom York.

Officials said they were pilloried for the change on an Internet message board, and York said the two culprits joined in on the bashing without revealing they were responsible.

If by "hack" they mean "logged in and changed the html".

News 5 was also duped by the alleged school closing hackers. For 22 minutes, just before midnight Sunday night, our system listed Edgewood City Schools as closed.

Someone reported the error to our hotline and used the Edgewood Web site as verification and, at 12:05 a.m. Monday, we corrected the error.

We have since improved our security to make sure only school officials can list schools as closed or delayed.

I wonder what they did to improve it? Now they make a call?

Authorities: Students Hacked Into Web Site, Canceled School