ISIS Hackers or Incompetent Password Management?

11 television stations went off the air; websites and social media were defaced; and an internal IT outage for TV5 in Paris, France. The websites were taken over with pro-messages of the CyberCaliphate, the same group who either DDoS’ed or defaced the 19,000 websites during the Charlie Hebdo incident back in January.

The IT Director of the television stations claimed it was a quick and coordinated attack that could have been spawned by USB malware or a spearphishing attack.

It could also be that they have really crappy password management and aired footage of their office where a user posted their usernames and passwords on their monitor that displayed password was “lemotdepassedeyoutube,” which translates in English to “the password of YouTube.” which gives us reason that their other passwords are probably easily guessable.