These are “hoaxes” that the authorities take very seriously. Threats of attacks against middle and high schools, via digital workspace messaging (ENT), concerned “around 400 establishments targeted out of around twenty academies”, indicated this Tuesday, April 2, the Minister of National Education Nicole Belloubet.
Until then, the ministry had mentioned more than 150 establishments in Paris and the region targeted last week by threats of attacks transmitted via digital spaces serving as a link between teachers, students and parents. A beheading video was notably sent to several establishments. “These messages were entered through the personal accounts of our students. I asked that the ENT messaging be suspended to reset the accounts, redo instructions,” declared the minister at the microphone of RMC/BFM.
Asked about the time horizon for restoring these messaging services, Nicole Belloubet explained that “the objective is to suspend the ENTs during the spring holidays, to carry out the first security work, and to reopen after the holidays”. She specified that this work was done “in conjunction with local authorities”.
A new roadmap
Last Thursday, a meeting was held at the Ministry of Education on digital security in schools, to define “a shared roadmap aimed at better securing digital work spaces and school life software, in the short and medium term. term”, according to rue de Grenelle.
“With the representatives of elected officials and publishers, we will deploy a real digital shield,” Nicole Belloubet also promised Thursday on X. Complaints have also been filed and investigations opened.
A 17-year-old minor was arrested and placed in police custody on Thursday in Malakoff in Hauts-de-Seine in the investigation into hacking of the digital platforms of educational establishments (ENT), we learned from a source close to the case and with the Paris prosecutor’s office.