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 about sixty students to spread bomb and attack threats, according to the prosecutor’s office.
The cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office was intervened on June 24 and investigations were entrusted to the Central Office to Combat Crimes Related to Information and Communication Technologies (OCLCTIC).
The two teens were arrested and taken into custody Thursday, according to prosecutors. Their computers were confiscated during searches of their homes.
Evacuated establishments
At the end of their police detention, they were charged on Saturday, in particular, with threats to kill or dangerously destroy people, attacks on an automated data processing system in an organized group and dissemination of false information. They were placed under judicial supervision.
In total, twenty-seven incidents of bomb threats and attack threats came to light in various educational centers in France, in particular in Mulhouse, Lille and Créteil.
At the beginning of February, three teenagers aged 14, 15 and 17, from Gironde, Val-de-Marne and Bouches-du-Rhône, had already been accused of having distributed threatening messages after having hacked an otorhinolaryngologist at the beginning of January. Fifteen establishments had to be evacuated. According to an article by Parisian published at the end of April, some of them are at odds with their parents or the school environment, and appear to have acted to seek“adrenalin” or out of resentment towards the school.
