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BBC: How France’s TV5 was almost destroyed by ‘Russian hackers’

By BBC.

Published Oct. 10, 2016 at 4:05 pm

A picture taken on April 9, 2015 shows an empty newsroom at French television network TV5Monde headquarters in Paris, after TV5Monde was hacked. French television network TV5Monde was forced to broadcast only pre-recorded programmes.

Photo by AFP PHOTO / THOMAS SAMSON

A powerful cyber-attack came close to destroying a French TV network, its director-general has told the BBC. TV5Monde was taken off air in April 2015. A group calling itself the Cyber Caliphate, linked to so-called Islamic State, first claimed responsibility.

But an investigation now suggests the attack was in fact carried out by a group of Russian hackers.