Top prosecutor orders probe into cyberattack targeting exam platform

Greece's top prosecutor ordered an investigation into two cyber attacks targeting a state-run exam platform on Tuesday morning, which has disrupted the end-of-year exams taking place in high schools around the country. 

Isidoros Dogiakos asks law-enforcement authorities to identify those behind the attack and confiscate any relevant evidence. The probe will be carried out with the help of the police's Cyber Crime Unit.

The inquiry will be handled by the head of Athens' First-Instance Court Prosecutor, Antonis Eleftherianos.

The denial-of-service (DDoS) attack caused the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET) which supports the platform from which teachers choose topics for the exams, to crash, along with the Panhellenic School Network, the internet service provider of the Ministry of Education, which connects school rooms and administrational services.<...