Hacked French TV network admits "blunder" that exposed YouTube password

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http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/hacked-french-tv-network-admits-blunder-that-exposed-youtube-password/

By Dan Goodin
Ars Technica
April 12, 2015

The head of the French TV network that suspended broadcasting following 
last week's hack attack has confirmed the service exposed its own 
passwords during a TV interview, but said the gaffe came only after the 
breach.

"We don't hide the fact that this is a blunder," the channel's director 
general Yves Bigot, told the AFP news service.

The exposure came during an interview a rival TV service broadcast on the 
TV5Monde attack. During the questioning, a TV5Monde journalist sat in 
front of several scraps of paper hanging on a window. One of them showed 
the password of for the network's YouTube account. As Ars reported last 
week, the pass code was "lemotdepassedeyoutube," which translates in 
English to "the password of YouTube."

Bigot stressed that the passwords were broadcast only after the hack 
attack, which occurred overnight Wednesday when hackers compromised 
TV5Monde servers and social networking accounts. A TV5Monde manager told 
AFP that the gaffe came in the immediate aftermath of the hack attack, 
when network managers were scrambling to quickly hand out new temporary 
online access codes.

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