Forced to resume distance education on Tuesday April 6, following government decisions to fight Covid-19, French students and teachers were faced with many technical problems accessing educational platforms.

The influx of connections has caused significant difficulties in accessing ENT (digital work environments), a digital educational tool for school education managed by local communities.

For its part, the National Center for Distance Learning (Cned) denounced "several dozen attacks on the educational continuity site 'My class at home', which could not be completely blocked by the operator" .

The cybercrime section of the Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation, we learned from the prosecutor's office on Wednesday. 

This investigation, entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Crime Related to Information and Communication Technologies (OCLTIC), was opened for "fraudulent access to an automated processing system" and "obstruction of operation" d 'such a system, said the prosecution, confirming information from France Televisions.

Attack "from abroad"

The Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, had mentioned as early as Tuesday morning a "very strong computer attack from abroad", without further details on its exact origin.

Cned explained that it had transmitted "all the technical elements related to these cyberattacks" to the National Information Systems Security Agency (Anssi).

The attacks came as distance education became widespread for this week from the closing of schools on Friday night and until the unified spring break from April 12.

Before a return to school on April 26 face-to-face in schools and an additional week in middle and high schools.

 "Despite these malicious acts", some "500,000 students and teachers accessed the platforms" at 10 am and "150,000 virtual classes were active," the minister said on Tuesday.

With AFP

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