{"id":107286,"date":"2015-04-11T06:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T06:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=107286"},"modified":"2015-04-11T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T07:04:07","slug":"france-tv5monde-passwords-seen-on-cyber-attack-tv-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=107286","title":{"rendered":"France TV5Monde passwords seen on cyber-attack TV report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staff at France’s TV5Monde have been filmed with passwords visible a day after the TV network suffered a huge cyber-attack.<\/p>\n

Login details for social media accounts could be seen behind a journalist interviewed on France 2.<\/p>\n

It comes after hackers claiming to represent jihadist group Islamic State (IS) took TV5Monde off air.<\/p>\n

The Paris-based channel told the BBC the visible data was a one-off mistake and was not linked to the attack.<\/p>\n

Its TV station, website and social media accounts were all hit on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Manuel Valls condemned what he called an “unacceptable attack on freedom of information”.<\/p>\n

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Several of the organisations social media accounts were hit<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Journalist David Delos was speaking on camera of the “frustration” felt in the newsroom on Thursday when passwords for accounts on Twitter and Instagram could be seen on a dividing screen in the background.<\/p>\n

Most were too blurry to be distinguished with the naked eye, but social media users claimed to have been able to decipher YouTube login details.<\/p>\n

Footage broadcast on BFMTV also appeared to show a password written on yellowpost-it notes and stuck on computer monitors.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for TV5Monde said passwords were not normally left around in such a way, and the error made in the interview was an isolated case.<\/p>\n

‘Threatening the government’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prosecutors have opened an investigation into the cyber-attack, which French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said was likely to have been a “terrorist act”.<\/p>\n

A message posted by the hackers on TV5Monde’s Facebook site read: “The CyberCaliphate continues its cyberjihad against the enemies of Islamic State.”<\/p>\n

They replaced TV5Monde’s social media profile pictures with a masked Islamist fighter.<\/p>\n

Mr Cazeneuve promised the government would do “everything to catch those who tried to attack the heart of the French Republic”.<\/p>\n

The head of TV5, Yves Bigot, said on Thursday it was not clear whether the hackers had targeted the channel specifically, or used it as a messenger.<\/p>\n

“Obviously what they were doing is threatening the French government, the French military and the French policy in the Middle East.”<\/p>\n

France is part of the US-led coalition carrying out air strikes against IS in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

The channel has not commented on the latest apparent security breach.<\/p>\n

TV5Monde regained control over most of its sites about two hours after the attack began on Wednesday and full services were restored by Thursday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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