Pupils of the Frisian school CSG Comenius Mariënburg carried out DDOS attacks on their own school. As a result, teachers had problems with giving online lessons for a week.
In a DDOS attack, a criminal sends a lot of internet traffic to a website or server. As a result, a website or server can become overloaded and inaccessible.
The school in Leeuwarden, where some fifteen hundred HAVO and VWO students attend, had problems with the internet for over a week due to the attacks. This mainly caused problems during the online lessons. “Pupils kept seeing a black screen because the teachers were disconnected”, location director Freek Polter told NU.nl.
The attacks have now stopped and everything is working properly again. Research has shown that at least two students are behind the attacks.
But when they stopped, the problem was not solved. That is why the school suspects that even more students are involved. “We are of course still investigating whether this was really the case,” says Polter.
He suspects that the perpetrators did it out of boredom, but does not yet say what punishment they can expect. He is also not happy with the ease with which his students were able to shut down the school systems. How that could have happened is still being investigated.
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