By February of last year, seven Kent employees, nine students, four former employees, and 59 recent alumni, most of them women, had been victims of Daniel Clery’s cyber-attacks.

Ladies and the Tramp

An I.T. employee at the elite Kent boarding school, in Connecticut, downloaded photos from 70 under-age female students’ laptops. Then he moved on to Yale

By Clara Molot

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY CHOP CHOPPISH SHOP

“It was boarding school. There was nothing else to do,” says Sam Thompson, 23, thinking back to the types of photographs that lived on her personal laptop when she was a teen. “Boarding-school boys were crazy.”

Thompson grew up in the quiet town of Kent, in western Connecticut. Her father worked as a math teacher and football coach at the nearby Kent School, an elite Episcopal boarding school whose alumni include singer Lana Del Rey and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. (Some might recall the 1999 saga when longtime Kent School head of school Father Richardson Schell engaged in a letter-writing campaign against a 26-year-old MacFarlane to kill the popular new sitcom because there was a character named after his secretary.)