The Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Monday September 18 the indictment of two teenagers from the Bordeaux area suspected of having hacked digital spaces of different educational establishments in France.
These young people, born in 2008, hacked the digital workspace (ENT) accounts of around sixty students to broadcast bomb threats and attack threats, the prosecution said.
The cybercrime unit of the Paris public prosecutor’s office was seized on June 24, and the investigations were entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Crime Related to Information and Communication Technologies (OCLCTIC).
The two teenagers were arrested and taken into custody on Thursday, according to the prosecution. Their computers were seized during searches of their homes.
Establishments evacuated
At the end of their police custody, they were indicted on Saturday, in particular for threatening death or dangerous destruction for people, attacks on an automated data processing system in an organized group and disclosure of false information. They were placed under judicial supervision.
In total, twenty-seven incidents of bomb threats and threats of attacks, in several educational establishments in France, notably in Mulhouse, Lille and Créteil, were brought to light.
At the beginning of February, three teenagers aged 14, 15 and 17, from Gironde, Val-de-Marne and Bouches-du-Rhône, had already been indicted for having distributed threatening messages after having hacked ENT at beginning of January. Fifteen establishments had to be evacuated. According to an article from Parisian published at the end of Aprilsome of them are at odds with their parents or with the school environment, and seem to have acted to seek“adrenaline” or out of resentment towards the school.
The World with AFP