Monday, June 18, 2007

Czech Hackers Alter Television Show

Via Middle East Times -

PRAGUE -- Czech television viewers witnessed a mountain beauty spot transformed into the site of a nuclear explosion Sunday when hackers pirated a program aired by public broadcaster CT2, Czech media said.

Hackers broke into the early-morning Panorama program - which regularly displays webcam scenes of Czech beauty spots - and inserted images of a mushroom cloud following a nuclear explosion.

"The images were very unsuitable and could have frightened a lot of people," Czech Television spokesman Martin Krafl told novinky.cz, a Czech Internet news server.

Hackers attacked equipment owned by a subcontractor and not the broadcaster's main Prague headquarters, Krafl said, adding that lawyers had been instructed to take steps against those responsible.

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