Two teenagers from the Bordeaux agglomeration were indicted Saturday, suspected of having hacked digital workspaces of students to broadcast bomb threats in different schools in France, we learned Monday from the Paris prosecutor's office.
These two teenagers, born in 2008, hacked the accounts of the digital workspaces (ENT) of sixty students to broadcast bomb threats and threats of attack, said the prosecutor. The cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office was seized on 24 June and the investigations were entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Crime Related to Information and Communication Technologies (OCLCTIC).
Searches of their homes
A total of 27 bomb threats and threats of attack were uncovered in several schools in France, including Mulhouse, Lille and Créteil. The two teenagers were arrested and taken into custody on Thursday, according to the prosecutor's office. Their computers were seized during searches of their homes, it added.
At the end of their police custody, they were indicted on Saturday for threatening death or dangerous destruction for people, attacks on an automated data processing system in an organized gang and disclosure of false information. They were placed under judicial control.
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In early February, three teenagers aged 14, 15 and 17 from Gironde, Val-de-Marne and Bouches-du-Rhône, were indicted for spreading threatening messages after hacking NTEs in early January. Fifteen facilities had to be evacuated.
