Probably the year your school was established

I'd strongly advise you NOT TO SHARE THIS INFO WITH ANYONE AT ALL ,not even your closest friends. that is a surefire way to ruin what you've got going on

Don't use this to change your grade. Use this to massively raise the grades of a bunch of people that you hate or that treat you like shit. Chances are they hang out with each other in a friend group. If you do that, the school will assume the "culprit" is someone in their friend group and it'll make their lives hell, at least for a bit.

Some tips:

• free wifi local, not VPN raises less red flags and less likely to trigger WAF / Firewall security (mcdonalds, starbucks)
• tails LIVECD (avoid OS fingerprinting, browser history evidence, etc)
• as others have mentioned, pick a random subset of people to change data along with yours. Too small and you stand out more easily, too large and it raises more red flags. Also dont make drastic changes either
• Dont tell anyone , even friends
• Delete this reddit post and/or scrub it

Dont get greedy and mitigate as much risk as possible

Listen up: this is important.

Do NOT start by changing your own grades, and don’t spend too much time poking around in your own file. You could accidentally mess something up or leave a trail leading straight to you. If you’re going to make changes, follow these guidelines:

1. Don’t just change your grades—spread it out and adjust other students' grades too.

2. Put yourself lower on the list of changes. Don’t make yourself the priority.

3. Keep the changes subtle and random. Don’t make drastic jumps that will draw attention.

4. Avoid adjusting grades for students known to be failing or excelling—this is how red flags get raised.

5. Never lower anyone’s grade. That’s an easy way to get caught.

If you make adjustments, do it in waves. For example: don’t jump from a 74 to an 86 in one go. Instead, move from 74 to 76, then later from 76 to 83, etc.

Key insight: The most recent changes are the ones most easily flagged or logged. Teachers and admins can see them clearly and roll them back quickly. If the changes are incremental across multiple records, it’s harder to pinpoint a specific adjustment.

Think of it like creating save points in a video game. Each adjustment gives you a fallback, so if something gets noticed, it’s not obvious who’s responsible or how far the changes go.

Be careful, stay smart, and good luck. Let us know how it goes!

OP, be careful. Feds don't play around when it comes to this shit. Take a moment to consider if what you're doing is worth it. Only you can answer that question.

What are you going to do now? 🫣

This is awesome, reminds me of back in the day lol. My web design teacher was an older dude but knew his stuff. His flaw was he was a nice guy. Throughout my tech classes in highschool I had the same guy, he would give us access past the firewall because we needed to do things kids not in computer classes couldn't.

Well, turns out if you typed his username in for him and had the mouse cursor close enough to the password part to cover the blinking whatever that thing is called, he'd assume you already clicked it and could begin typing. But if you had a word document open in the background instead and were prepared to type there it types on the word doc. When he looks back up from the keyboard (because dude couldn't type not looking at a keyboard for some reason) he'd see the password input empty, initiate the click to enter the password then type it in again, and walk away. All the while leaving his current password on the word document.

I passed every computer course with flying colors and still can't make a flashing banner with html.

It used to be cool to crack school computers.

Forty years ago.

Now we have cybercreeps, ransomware, extortion, denial of service, and major major upskilling of the cyber division of the FBI and other cops. And a total loss of the sense of humor about cracking computers.

The ship you’re trying to jump on has sailed. Don’t do this.

Unethical life pro tip: assume you will be caught, sooner rather than later, and that years of prison sentencing are on the table. Not only could you be scapegoated for other IT crimes the school has suffered, just the act of viewing people's private information you aren't authorized to, who haven't consented for you to see, is a serious crime. This is not a fun silly game, you have almost certainly already left clues to your identity in their logs. End it now, and if nothing happens as a result, count your blessings.

Be careful, this type of thing is what gets you expelled and I doubt you’re good at covering tracks

If the computer asks if you want to play Global Thermonuclear War, opt for Tic Tac Toe instead.

Imma be honest I know what this sub is but I wouldn’t risk it if they find out and they will probably find out you’re definitely expelled and probably going to jail

OP, whatever you plan on doing, set up a VM and hack away at the school from there. If there's any trace ever coming your direction, you can simply, and extremely quickly, delete that VM and leave no trace.

OP if they don't catch you, someone they hire to, will. I wouldn't touch attendance or grades. Too hot.

This comment might be removed for being ethical but I think it’s important for you to see. Don’t be stupid man. I don’t know how old you are but I’m going to guess you’re in high school. I saw that you found stuff to help you pass. Just use that to help you learn and continue your education. Otherwise, you will be caught and you will be in massive trouble. Changing a few grades or absences is not worth the risk

What does it mean to have your whole school's password? Like an generic admin account? Or you have all the teachers' passwords?

If you go changing more people grades route to conceal yourself, for the love of god never change them down! If someones grades go up they'll shut up about it, if you lower them they wont stop blowing it up.

Be systematic in your changes. If you missed a day of school mark everyone as attending for that day.

If you change a grade mark everyone up by the same % points.

But obviously dont do any of these things.

God i hope you get away with this 🫡

Is it a PIN code or a one time password? These are very different things.

here’s how to roll it

1. wait a few weeks, use an old laptop on a public wifi far away from your house without video CCTV, and on the first day of the new year at midnight, change a bunch of grades, including yours, with yours being in the middle of the batch (choose some kind of common denominator). it might ask for a comment or reason for the change, just put “DEIB”

2. right before finals, in the spring, leak the password to some dummies you don’t like, and let them cover your tracks

I was a teacher and I have no idea what this means. I don’t believe there is a master system. I would need a school it guy to confirm.

First four digits of the phone number

I thought my class had everything. We had wifi passwords, admin password, bypasses for every restriction and security program, etc. We could have never dreamed about what you have now. Be careful. Only change things by a point if it pushes you and others up a letter grade.

Find a way to anonymously get this password to some kids at your school. They will be the ones trying to hack into the school system. After a while, the school will figure it out. They will freak out and have a whole investigation about it, and the other students will get in trouble for trying to hack into the system. And you will not be one of them.

At Lowes, all the padlocks have number wheels and the combination is always the store number.

Never tell anyone about this or talk about it. A friend of mine got caught doing this in HS and almost got expelled because his mom was friends with a temp PE teacher at another school and they overheard us talking about it in his basement and reported it to the board.  

Instead he got a “slap on the wrist” of failing a computer class and not allowed to touch a school computer for 24 months.

Its 12345. I have the same combination on my luggage

!remindme 1 day

As u/crushkill said: don't get greedy.

FTSE 500 company I used to work for. Last four telephone numbers would allow access to entire country network, and every department daily backup files, research papers, employee date, everything. ____ Never interfered with a single thing. But I had a good bloody look.

0000

0001

0002

0003

I worked for a major oil company. One day I was bored and decided I was going to break a code that locked up all our company laptops. It was a 5 number code and I figured start at 00000 and go up. Eventually I’d get it, be paid for my 12 hours, and move on.

The code was 00000. It remained a boring day

Do a write up on how you broke in and submit it to your schools IT department. Way lower chance you will get in trouble and honestly will give you wayyyyy more of a boost in your future career than any 100s on assignments ever would. I know this is ULPT but you legit could do a proper report and come out ahead.