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Hackers interrupted Spanish television and broadcast Russian content for hours

By Tim Pearce
Published December 17, 2019 7:35pm ET
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Hackers interrupted Spanish television and broadcast Russian content for hours
Xenia Fedorova, chief executive of RT France attends an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018.

Hackers tapped into the feed of a state-owned Spanish news outlet and pushed Russian content for hours before being disconnected.

The hack happened Thursday and replaced content by Televisión Española, a state-owned broadcasting company in Spain, with an interview between former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and former Catalonian separatist leader Carles Puigdemont. The interview originally aired on the state-owned Russian outlet Russia Today.

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