Small wave of panic in the premises of BFMTV and RMC.
The media accounts of the Altice group (BFMTV, RMC, RMC Sport, Estelle Midi, etc.) were hacked on Saturday shortly before 4 p.m., noted thousands of users of the social network.
Messages hostile to Russia were published the day after the attack which left more than 130 dead in a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow.
The tweet was published shortly before 4 p.m. on the BFMTV and RMC X accounts.
Screenshot/X
“Well then @KremlinRussia, have we lost members?
It will teach you to speak poorly of President Macron,” we read in several tweets.
These messages, which reappeared several times after being deleted, are accompanied by hashtags mocking the victims of the terrorist attack such as
#cheh
, synonymous with “well done”.
BFMTV's YouTube channel was also affected by the hack.
Two-second videos titled “So Russia?
» were published before being deleted.
The hack was claimed by the Epsilon group, which had already boasted of having stolen the personal information of 1.5 million customers of the IT giant LDLC at the beginning of March.
Around 4:30 p.m., a new message was posted on the various accounts of the Altice group: “hello, it’s Epsilon!
», accompanied by the hashtag #FreePalestine.
Screenshot - X/@RMCinfo
The group spoke out on the situation less than an hour after this hack.
“Our BFM-RMC social media accounts are currently victims of hacking, malicious messages have been published and are gradually being deleted.
Our teams are mobilized to restore the situation,” we can read on BFMTV’s X account.
🔴 Our BFM-RMC social media accounts are currently victims of hacking, malicious messages have been published and are gradually being deleted.
Our teams are mobilized to restore the situation.
Prosecutions will be initiated to identify the perpetrators.
We…
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) March 23, 2024
“Prosecutions will be initiated to identify the authors” of this massive hacking, the group also assures.