In Seine-et-Marne, in the North, the Pas-de-Calais, the Rhône, in Marseille or even in Caen… Monday and Tuesday, around twenty colleges or high schools had to be evacuated after receiving threats of an attack bombs or explosives. They were uttered their digital workspace (ENT) via the hacking of senders address. This Wednesday, the rectorate of Toulouse confirms that the Léon-Blum college in Colomiers, in the suburbs of the Pink City, has also been targeted by this campaign of fear. But the threats that arrived Tuesday evening on an internal messaging system allowed the deployment of police dogs in the evening and very early this Wednesday, to remove doubt without disrupting the life of the establishment.
cyber investigators
After this alarming wave, the prosecutor’s offices in Meaux, Lille and Saint-Malo for the time being have withdrawn in favor of the cyber section of the Paris prosecutor’s office. The latter announced on Wednesday the opening of an investigation for death threats and attacks on an automated data processing system. The investigations are entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Crime Related to Information and Communication Technologies (OCLCTIC).
These “threats have circulated on the ENT, these Internet portals which connect students, parents and teachers with similar messages from one end of the country to the other, therefore hacked accounts”, specified the Minister of National Education Pap Ndiaye this Wednesday on BFMTV. These messages “also circulated on WhatsApp loops”, he added. All the searches carried out in the establishments concerned revealed the absence of explosives.
“We are monitoring things very closely and we are ensuring that the ENTs are even better secured than they are today,” assured the Minister.