TV5Monde, a French-language TV station broadcast around the world, was reportedly hacked by ISIS, halting broadcasts for about three hours. Its Facebook page and website were also hijacked, and network director Yves bigot said operations were "severely damaged" by the attack. The station's programming and Facebook page are now back up, but its website remains "en maintenance." As in a recent US hack, the jihadist group also outed the identities of purported relatives of French soldiers and issued threats against troops. France is part of a coalition providing air support for anti-ISIS ground forces, which recently liberated the Iraqi city of Tikrit. Following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in the nation that left 17 dead, France's defense minister said ISIS must be "wiped out."
It's not known how the group accessed station operations, but it appears to be the same "Islamic State Hacking Division" that took credit for US military base attacks. It referred to itself as the "CyberCaliphate" on TV5Monde's Facebook page, just as it did after hacking US military servers. Bigot said it could take days for broadcasts to return to normal, adding that the attack must have required "weeks" of planning. The station is broadcast in over 200 nations around the world, including the US, Canada and Britain.
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Via: Agence France Presse
Source: TV5Monde (Facebook)
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