Billboard hijacked by hackers to show porn in Sweden
Citizens of Malmo in Sweden were in a rude shock when a billboard started showing hardcore porn. The incident was first noticed by a woman who was left in shock after hardcore porn footage appeared on a digital information board in central Malmö.
Soon the billboard in the third largest city of Sweden became a hit with large crowd was seen gathering around the billboard on a lazy Sunday afternoon, in Malmö Central Station, which began showing porn clips from Meatspin.
“It was seriously hardcore porn,” a witness, Maria Escalante who was present at Malmö Central Station to catch a bus, told the Swedish newspaper, Aftonbladet. The public transport operator, Skånetrafiken, who operates bus service from Malmö Central Station however said that nothing was found amiss. Skånetrafiken told Aftonbladet that it had not received complaints that their screens or information boards had suffered from malfunctions.
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“There was a group of guys standing there watching and I asked them if it had been going on for a while. They said it had,” Maria added. She told the newspaper that she missed her bus, meaning she was left at the bus stop for 15 minutes as the pornography continued.
Footage of the sign posted on Aftonbladet shows passersby walking past as the porn plays at the bus stop. It is understood the breach targeted the servers of Global Agencies, the agency which handles the advertising boards in Malmö. Global Agencies said they’d launched an investigation.”The system should be secure and right now we can’t answer how someone managed to hack it,”
Roger Starck of Global Agencies told the paper.”I’m incredibly angry about this all, it should never have been able to happen.” “Someone has decided to mess around, and they’ve succeeded.
