Why do hackers have fun publishing this kind of message? An investigation will have to determine it. But there’s a good chance it’s to extract money”we might, for example, imagine a call for donations “explains Olivier Bogaert, commissioner of the Computer Crime Unit.
The message also implicitly refers to the drama of Strépy-Bracquegnies: “The crooks will take advantage of the news and make sure that it can lead to a fairly quick reaction from people. With social networks, we have this form of immediacy which will make a large part of Internet users react.“