When TPMP calls on the new “cyber security experts”…

Last Tuesday, the show Do not touch My TV ! had to be stopped due to a huge technical bug. The next day, a cybersecurity “expert” is invited on set to explain this mystery.

On Tuesday March 8, the C8 channel faced technical bugs that impacted the show Do not touch My TV (TPMP). Cyril Hanouna and his columnists had to stop the show in the face of this unprecedented situation. Were they victims of a cyber attack?

Unheard of for Cyril Hanouna’s team

First is the program 6 to 7 which is impacted first by technical problems. The show’s Twitter account posted: Due to a technical problem, we cannot take the live in the 6 to 7. Our apologies, we meet in a moment with Cyril Hanouna for TPMP “.

It is therefore a replay of TPMP which is published instead. Cyril Hanouna’s team resumed live shortly after, but found themselves forced to stop the show early, due to major problems preventing viewers from following the show properly.

It was a problem at the level of the management, which could no longer hear the columnists and the host. According to the explanations of Cyril Hanouna: “ Two network cards have burnt out. The main card and the replacement card “.

So technical incidents or cyber-attack?

The day after the incident, Cyril Hanouna invited Idris Mousslie – cybersecurity expert and manager of Premlink.com – on the set of TPMP to try to figure out what happened.

According to him: It’s likely that it’s a cyber attack even if it’s just a sound card or a network card that was attacked, we could very well have overheated them remotely “. Additionally, many other platforms reported technical bugs on the same day, including Spotify, Facebook, Discord, TikTok, etc.

Even if these incidents are not necessarily linked, Idris Mousslie adds: “ I don’t believe in coincidences. You still had guests on set with links to Russia like Sergei (former KGB spy editor’s note), that can bother the Russian services which have agents all over the world “. If he seems to affirm that it was indeed a cyber-attack, he nevertheless specifies that he cannot prove it for the moment.

Source: Twitter