New York: A former Indian-origin university student, who hacked into his professors' computers to change all his 10 grades from "F" to "A", has been granted one-and-a-half years of probation and asked to apologise to his teachers, according to a media report.

Varun H Sarja, a former University of Kansas student, had pleaded guilty to two counts of identity theft and two counts of unlawful computer acts in May. Fourteen other felony charges were dropped as part of the plea deal.

"As the prosecutor and his defence attorney had requested in a plea agreement, Sarja of Olathe received a year and a half probation, with an underlying 18-month prison sentence that he could be ordered to serve should he fail at probation," The Lawrence Journal-World reported on Monday. PTI