It turns out that the hacked TV station was proudly broadcasting a sticky note with a password written on it



France's 'TV5 MONDE', which was forced to suspend broadcasting due to a cyber terrorist attack on April 8, 2015, was decrypted by viewers by showing a sticky note with the password of the SNS account on the broadcast the day after the terrorist attack. It turned out. The reality of sloppy password management has been clarified.

Hacked French network exposed its own passwords during TV interview | Ars Technica

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TV5MONDE --TV5MONDE Cyber Attack



Broadcasting of 11 channels of TV5MONDE, a French TV broadcasting station, was hit by a cyber attack on the 8th, and it became impossible to broadcast. According to TV5MONDE, the cyber attack was committed by an organization called 'Islamic State' (IS).

Meanwhile, in the interview video of reporter David Delos on the TV program 13-heures broadcast on April 9, the day after the incident, a sticky note with a password-like character string was projected.


The inadvertently shown social media account was difficult to distinguish from recorded footage and broadcasts, but points out that Twitter user pent0thal is the password for YouTube.


In addition, Twitter user pent0thal pointed out that there are other sticky notes with strings that look like the username and password of the staff in the TV5MONDE station.


It has been pointed out that password management is sloppy, such as sticking a sticky note with a password on the PC or wall in the TV5MONDE station, but as a matter of course, 'The cyber terrorist attack on April 8 was also sloppy in password management. It seems that TV5MONDE has been pointed out that 'What is it?'

In addition, the YouTube password projected on April 9 is 'lemotdepassedeyoutube', which is said to be 'YouTube password' in French.

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