Bloomfield Students Suspected of Hacking System, Changing Grades and Lunch Refunds

Bloomfield Hills Schools is investigating students suspected of hacking the computer system to change high school grades, alter attendance records and refund lunch purchases.

"Unfortunately, a couple of our students made some poor choices lately, deciding to hack into our student information system, which houses all of our student and family data, and manipulate their personal grades, attendance, and lunch balance information," Supt. Robert Glass emails parents Thursday, adding that the district enlists data experts to investigate.

"Students gained access to the system by exploiting a vulnerability within the system. To be clear, the student information system is now safe and the vulnerability has been resolved.

"We also believe, through carefully collected forensic evidence, to now understand the motivations of the students’ actions. We believe they intended to improve their own grades and attendance and refund lunch purchases. We also believe they modified similar information of a few other high school students. At this time, we believe approximately twenty students total have had modifications made to their accounts in some fashion."

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