French television channel was hacked after the interview personnel background stickers with passwords

For several days the story develops with взломом internal network and accounts in social networks of the French TV channel TV5Monde, whose work for a while was just paralyzed as a result of hackers who identify themselves as supporters of the Islamic State. Were put out of service servers responsible for handling e-mail, video editing, broadcast signal.



attack on resources TV5 Monde anonymous attackers began on Wednesday evening at about 22:00 in Paris (/ 23: 00 MSK), and open the channel protection official site and its pages on social networks. Close to midnight was interrupted and TV - Channel disappeared from the airwaves, instead of the image for a few hours at frequencies TV5 Monde was a black screen with no sound, occasionally switches to a saver with the logo of the channel.
Some time in the account TV5 Monde on Facebook could be seen pictures of people dressed in black and Arab scarf with signature "Kiberhalifat" and "I - IG." Among the reports were published threats against French soldiers engaged in operations against Islamists in Africa and the Middle East.
As recognized by CEO Yves Bigot, within a few hours experts were "not able to transmit a signal on any of the channels." "Gradually, we begin to restore broadcasting in several regions, - he said the agency France-Presse. - Our system is very seriously injured, it is an attack of unprecedented power. A full recovery will take many hours, if not days. " TASS blockquote> A little later began to clarify some interesting details that indicate that the starting point for an attack on TV5Monde could be < a href="http://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-jt/france-2/13-heures/jt-de-13h-du-jeudi-9-avril-2015_866269.html">интервью reporter David Delos, where unwittingly exposed the at least one password of social networking. The fact that it was shot on a background of the table desk employee who is literally drowning in stickers with passwords to accounts in popular social sphere channel.







In the story got usernames and passwords for the official Twitter account and Instagram television, but it was too difficult to make out on the record in the official archive gear. However, YouTube video quality was better than that, apparently, and allow an attacker to choose the correct password. User Twitter pent0thal confirmed that the displayed account password was «lemotdepassedeyoutube», which can be translated from French as "password from YouTube».

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/255509/

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