Via Cnews -
Six high school freshmen hacked into the school computer system and change their grades on class assignments, officials said.
The International Academy students could be expelled.
The alterations began in the fall and were discovered only recently when a teacher noticed some grades were incorrect, said Jennifer Woliung, a spokeswoman for Bloomfield Hills school district. Officials did not say how many grades were changed.
Fourteen other students at the school are serving 20-day suspensions for asking the hackers to change their grades, Woliung said. They also will receive a zero for every altered grade.
The hackers used a laptop brought to school to gain access to password-protected areas. Students are no longer allowed to bring laptops from home, Woliung said.
Not sure what to say about this one. Clearly there are some security issues in the school's grading system, but of course this is the case in many colleges as well.
Hopefully this case will help turn these kids away from the dark side of hacking...
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