Hackers broadcast porn on TV screens at Brazil bus depot
A masked hacker, part of the Anonymous group, hacks the French presidential Elysee Palace website on January 20, 2012 near the eastern city of Lyon. In Brazil, hackers streamed hardcore porn on video screens at a bus station packed with travelers. AFP
SAO PAULO, Brazil – Hackers infiltrated the travel information video screens at a Brazilian bus station and replaced arrival and departure times with hard-core porn.
The sex footage ran for 15 minutes Friday evening at the Boqueirao station in the southern city of Curitiba. The depot was packed with travelers at the time.
The police cybercrime unit has been notified and is trying to trace the hacker or hackers, the municipal transport company said.
A Curitiba city hall official told AFP the company with the contract to operate the screens has also been notified and told it must improve its security.
Social media lit up with screen grabs of the pornography and jokes about the hack.
With a population of around two million, Curitiba is the capital of Parana state and one of the largest cities in southern Brazil.
