Trying to find the easy way out can lead to all sorts of discoveries. When several 15-year-olds found they could hack the laptop of their teacher's boyfriend for test answers, it was too good to pass up. Within a few minutes, the students did not just find the answers to their exam - a racy photo of their teacher was also part of the find.

Natalia Molokova, a 34-year-old teacher in a school in southern Russia found her image going viral as students hacked her boyfriend's laptop. The teacher left her laptop unattended for a couple of minutes when her students decided to hack their way to her exam.

The photo featured Molokova posing in sexy underwear.

In just a few moments, students took snap shots of the photo and started sharing it with their friends. The picture went viral immediately throughout the school in Rostov. The photo also reached social network and similar sites.

Molokova, who felt humiliated about the incident, refused to come back to work. She has not returned to the classroom since the incident took place. After a while, reports indicated that the photo was from Molokova's boyfriend's laptop. She left the laptop in the classroom for a short time without a clue of what her students did next.

Local authorities are looking into the distribution of the photograph.

"Her boyfriend had the picture in his laptop but left it in the classroom for a few minutes," Daily Mail quoted one of Natalia's colleagues.

"When he came back the pupils had copied it, emailed it and it was all over social networks within a few minutes."

"His girlfriend teaches history at another school but all the children there have seen it too," the colleague added.

The school announced it is already investigating the matter.

"Clearly her privacy has been breached in a major way," said a local authority spokesman.