“National exams will be passed normally and with absolute safety. This platform of the National Network for Technology and Research Infrastructures (EDYTE) is completely different from the system for broadcasting the subjects of the National Examinations.” The Ministries of Education and Digital Administration echoed the above report as after the cyberattack on the subject bank for internal high school exams, all eyes turned to the national exams. The concern is whether similar attacks and problems will arise in the exams, which in total will take about 95,000 high school applicants to universities.

According to “K” from the Institute for Educational Policy, at 6 am on Tuesday, 20 universities managed to receive subjects, after which problems began due to a cyber attack on the bank’s platform. The Institute for Education Policy (EIP) received hundreds of phone calls from school principals (about 1,400 nationwide) and high school principals as students waited for exams to begin.

Shortly before 09:00, however, more than 1,000 lyceums received items from the bank, and finally, according to the Ministry of Education, “the items were transferred to all schools and the final exams of the 3rd lyceum were passed. No student of the 3rd Lyceum will be excluded from the Panhellenic examination process due to malicious attacks.” It should be noted that in order to participate in the Panhellenic Examinations, a student must obtain a high school diploma.

The collapse of the Issuing Bank was the main topic of political debate in the middle of the pre-election period. “According to Mr. Akis Skertzos, SYRIZA, the 3-day interim government or cyber-attacks are also to blame for the collapse of the Emission Bank,” stressed SYRIZA-PS spokesman Popi Tsapanidou. “There are always other people to blame. Meanwhile, student anxiety continues until the exam problem is solved. All that remains is an arrogant disclaimer from the New Democracy government, which four years ago did not take care of the digital protection of the Subject Bank platform and ensuring the smooth conduct of intra-school exams, “he added. “Another day highlights the failure of the state to ensure the orderly conduct of exams. The staff has once again turned out to be a personnel chaos,” Nikos Androulakis commented on the new cyber attack on Theme Bank.

“The constant mess in the bank of topics needs to be addressed here and now! Allow teachers to set the subjects of intra-school exams themselves, ignoring the Subject Bank, in order to avoid inconvenience, especially for students of the 3rd Lyceum. Students are not laboratory animals,” the CHRG said. The seriousness of the cyber attack led to the intervention of the prosecutor’s office at the highest level.

The Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Isidoros Dogiakos, when the new cyber attack became known yesterday morning, ordered the head of the Prosecutor’s Office of First Instance, Antonis Eleftherianos, to immediately conduct an investigation with an order to immediately conduct an electronic criminal prosecution in order to find electronic traces and determine the center from which the attack was launched. The purpose of the investigations that have already begun is to find those who organized and carried out such a serious attack. According to the order, the E-Crime Prosecutor’s Office should immediately start investigating, using all means, arrests, removal of privacy, etc., to lead to a result.

However, prosecutorial sources involved in overseeing the investigation told K that the relevant investigations are extremely complex, beginning with the identification of electronic traces left by those who attacked the systems with lightning speed, while specifying that the number of 114 countries of which appear to be hit , is virtual, and tracing the source of an attack is a laborious, if not in most cases fruitless process.