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TV5 returns after IS cyber attack

April 10, 2015 09.57 Europe/London By Julian Clover

TV5 GalleryTV5 Monde has returned to the air after the large-scale cyber attack that took the Francophone network off air around the world.

The French security agency Anssi has sent a team of 13 staff to TV5’s headquarters to carry out a root and branch audit of the channel’s information systems. Viewers are expected to see little difference on air.

Channel director Yves Bigot told AFP that the attack was totally unprecedented in the history of television.

The attack on Wednesday, thought to have been undertaken by persons sympathetic to Islamic State took down TV5’s broadcast systems, and its website presence.

EBU president Jean-Paul Philippot condemned the cyber-attack in the strongest terms. “Hacking into the output in this way threatens the values of freedom of expression and a pluralistic media which help form the basis of public service broadcasting, a system built on diversity and a considered interpretation of the world and its values.”

The Upper Audiovisual council of French media regulator CSA also condemned the action as a “serious attack on freedom of communication of a key channel in the Francophone world”.

“To attack an international television channel that screens mostly cultural and entertainment programming is unprecedented,” commented Simon Spanswick, chief executive of the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB). “It is unclear exactly who was behind this major assault on TV5 Monde. However, those responsible were clearly intent on attacking freedom of expression.”

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Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, Top Story, TV Tagged With: TV5 Edited: 13 April 2015 11:41

About Julian Clover

Julian Clover is a Media and Technology journalist based in Cambridge, UK. He works in online and printed media. Julian is also a voice on local radio. You can talk to Julian on Twitter @julianclover, on Facebook or by email at jclover@broadbandtvnews.com.

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