Is this the world's youngest hacker? 13-year-old boy hacked into school computer system to get answers to his homework... but says he was only 'testing its weaknesses'

By Nelson Groom for Daily Mail Australia

• Wang Zhengyang has been dubbed China's 'hacking prodigy'
• The junior high student is already working with Tsinghua University in Beijing
• Zhengyang spoke at the 2014 Chinese Internet Security Conference
• He says 'you have to attack the websites first to find its weaknesses'
• The teenager has contacted a popular Beijing-based software company about potential system flaws

Most 13-year-olds resort to farcical excuses to avoid handing in homework. Why not hack your school's online system and take the answers directly?

And if it's going to take months of filling your piggy-bank to buy the newest Xbox game, why not hack an online store and lower the price to whatever you see fit?

Those are of some of the prospective antics of Wang Zhengyang, an adolescent who's been dubbed China's 'hacking prodigy'.

Culled from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk