While digital billboards are supposed to grab your attention, recent reports from Egypt, Malaysia, and Brazil described them doing so with explicit footage. The cyberattacks were claimed by a group called Leakers$, which said it exploited software used to send content to LED displays. The group said it did not hack into individual billboards to show the pornographic footage, but accessed the software used to send the content.
Hackers put porn on public billboards and claim it was “far too easy”
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