Hacker sneaks porn onto Moscow billboard
A hacker has been arrested in Moscow after replacing advertising on a digital billboard with hardcore pornography.
The explicit video, shown for about a quarter of an hour on the billboard above the Russian capital’s Garden Ring thoroughfare before authorities shut it off, caused one man to suffer a fatal heart attack, according to local reports.
The hacker, described as an unemployed man of about 40, is said to be a “highly educated and extremely advanced Internet user”. He could be charged with illegally distributing pornography as well as hacking and jailed for up to two years.
Bizarrely, he is said to have offered the excuse that he intended to play the video on TV sets in a local shopping centre, not on the billboard.
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