High schools and colleges in Île-de-France and Hauts-de-France will benefit from significant protection this Monday for their return to class, reports
FranceInfo
.
The digital workspace (ENT), which is mainly used to communicate homework, as diaries are out of fashion, is suspended until further notice.
The cause: a wave of cyberattacks which targeted around fifty establishments in the Paris region on Wednesday and several in the Somme and in the North on Friday evening.
Content threatening attacks was found.
Each establishment concerned has been the subject of a clearance of doubt, according to the Ministry of National Education.
The threats were taken
“very seriously”
by the administration, which qualified by recalling that the attacks announced in the threats did not take place.
However, although no establishment is closed, the police will receive firm instructions.
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“A protocol developed by the rectorate and the management of the departmental National Education services, in conjunction with the three prefectures and the police, was put in place and communicated to school heads on Saturday morning,”
explains the Amiens rectorate (which brings together the departments of Aisne, Oise and Somme).
All targeted establishments will receive instructions requiring the greatest vigilance.
In the five academies targeted (Amiens, Créteil, Lille, Paris and Versailles), the digital work space will be closed.
Students and their parents will have to
“communicate through other channels”
, which will not be difficult, according to the ministry.
Students exposed to violent messages will also benefit from psychological support.
Gabriel Attal, the Prime Minister, assured Thursday that those responsible for cyberattacks will be
“tracked down”
and
“sanctioned”
.