Although many of the notorious digital billboard hacks have been attempts to create viral stories, the hacking of a Moscow video board that blazed a two-minute pornographic video instead of its regular advertising clips is (most likely) not one of them.
The Associated Press reported that Thursday's late-night traffic on one of the Russian capital's busiest roads, just 2km south of the Kremlin, slowed as a couple's explicit escapades appeared on the 9-by-6-meter display.
“It was a hacker attack on the controlling computer, in which one of our commercials was substituted with the obscene video,” a spokesman for 3 Stars, the firm that owns the billboard, said in a statement.
Could this be in protest to nudity being banned on TV in Russia since the early 90's? Hopefully this doesn't happen on Astral or Pattison's digital networks...
The Associated Press reported that Thursday's late-night traffic on one of the Russian capital's busiest roads, just 2km south of the Kremlin, slowed as a couple's explicit escapades appeared on the 9-by-6-meter display.
“It was a hacker attack on the controlling computer, in which one of our commercials was substituted with the obscene video,” a spokesman for 3 Stars, the firm that owns the billboard, said in a statement.
Could this be in protest to nudity being banned on TV in Russia since the early 90's? Hopefully this doesn't happen on Astral or Pattison's digital networks...
If you actually want to see what played, here's some video a witness captured and posted online. WARNING: It's obviously NSFW. The site is also in Russian, just click the first button (confirming you are OK with viewing adult content):
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