According to a police source, accounts associated with digital labor environments (ENT) were hacked and then served to send alarming emails.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
Disturbing
Back to several schools in France, where evacuations took place on Monday 2 and Tuesday January 3 following threats of bombing or explosive attack launched on digital work spaces (ENT) hacked. The ENT is an internet portal that connects parents, teachers and students to exchange information.
There have been evacuations for “lifting of doubt” in establishments in Seine-et-Marne as well as in Madeleine (North), Rillieux-la-Pape (Rhône), Marseille, Caen or Carvin ( Pas-de-Calais). In this last locality, Tuesday morning, recovery day after the Christmas holidays, a high school, a college and a school, in the same perimeter, were evacuated due to “a threat of explosives” targeting high school , according to the prefecture. The demining operation of the establishment ended without anything discovered.
“shippers are not the authors”
According to the rectorate, the Lille Baggio high school had already been evacuated on Monday but only the staff were present, not the students. A source close to the investigation evokes “the account of a student who sent an email” announcing that he was going to blow up the establishment. “The account holder was arrested and placed in police custody on Monday, but released because his account was hacked,” said the same source.
“Tour in France, high schools are recipients of email threats of attacks on ENTs” but “mail sender are not the authors,” said this source, who adds that “the unit of wrestling Against cybercrime is very closely associated with the investigation “.
The Lycée Valentine-Labbé de la Madeleine (North) was also evacuated on Monday. “A message will be sent to all the principals asking them to be vigilant and to notify the police” if necessary, assured the rectorate.
In the Rhône, the versatile high school Camus-Sermenaz, in Rillieux-la-Pape, was temporarily evacuated Tuesday morning after a bomb alert. According to the town hall, the threat was widespread by several emails.