The Ministry of National Education is warning parents of students against the risks of data hacking via their children’s digital work spaces. Recently, accounts have been hacked and used to spread bomb threats, attacks and hate messages.
The year was marked by several incidents in different French educational establishments. Bomb threats were in fact posted on students’ digital workspaces (the place where families and the teaching team communicate). All the alerts turned out to be false, they were the work of computer hackers who had hacked ENT user accounts.
In January, in a high school, a link was shared using the same procedure, it sent parents and students to a Discord discussion page where racist and homophobic insults were uttered. The threat was taken seriously by the police who, in certain cases, evacuated the establishments. The same message was received on different ENTs, it promised to “decapitate all the kouffars [mécréants] to serve Allah the Almighty”. Threats which, fortunately, did not turn out to be founded but which highlighted the threat hovering over these digital work spaces.
Other hacks aim to make parents or their children click so that malicious software allowing the theft of data exchanged in ENTs is installed. It may be a link, or a call to strengthen the security of your ENT, the simple fact of clicking download can give computer hackers access to all the personal data of students’ families.
The Ministry of National Education therefore calls for the greatest vigilance regarding practices regarding these ENTs.
2023-09-19 00:35:44
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