The findings were reported to the Alabama State Department of Education and law enforcement began investigating the matter.
This has happened before
In December 2017, a high school student in Tenafly, NJ got access to the IT systems at Tenafly High School in New Jersey and changed the grades to improve his GPA. The student then “sent out college applications immediately after,”
Later next year, a University of Kansas engineering student hacked into a professor’s computer and changed his grades favorably.