The France Télévisions group announced Friday that it was the victim of a cyber attack, targeting one of its broadcasting sites, which however had no impact on its antennae. The group said in a brief statement that "one of its dissemination sites has been infected with a computer virus".
"For the time being, the teams are fully mobilized and broadcasting on air is not impacted in the short term," added the public group. "However, the broadcasting of France 3 will be transferred to the headquarters of France Televisions and the backup site has already been activated," said the company.
Ransomware
This is not the first computer attack that targets French audiovisual media. Last year, the M6 group had been the victim of a computer ransomware attack in October, which had disrupted the work of its employees, but which, again, had not hampered the broadcasting of its programs.
But the most resounding affair in the sector dates back to April 2015, when the French-language public channel TV5Monde had been the target of a large-scale cyberattack. Its broadcasts received in more than 200 countries and territories around the world had been cut, replaced by a black screen on all eleven antennas of its network.
At the same time, the channel lost control of its Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, as well as its websites, all of which displayed claims by the Islamic State group. It had taken several hours to restore the programs.
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