Porn Displayed On Best Buy Store Television Set

Customers at a South Carolina Best Buy store were taken aback when greeted by a pornographic image that was briefly displayed on a store television set.

The photo, which one customer described as "extremely, extremely pornographic," was on the screen for several minutes before management removed it, WSPA News reports.

Several children are reported to have seen the image.

Best Buy's corporate office released the following statement to WSPA:

"Two individuals accessed our store's wireless signal to broadcast inappropriate content on a smart television display. In both cases, we worked immediately to disable the inappropriate content. We greatly apologize for this unfortunate incident and we are working to ensure that it does not happen again."

While the Best Buy incident left many shielding their eyes, an online glitch recently exposed thousands of YouPorn users and their passwords to the entire Internet.

Debug data about the hugely popular porn site's users were being stored on a public server, according the Naked Security blog. Someone simply came across the information and began republishing it.

In November, hackers used Facebook to post pornographic images on users' news feeds after enticing individuals to click on links supposedly sent from their friends.

Messages sent to users contained statements such as "Wow, I can't believe you did this in this video. I LOLed," the Inquisitr reported. Facebook was quick to investigate reports of the malicious messages.

Police are investigating the Best Buy incident, but AVN still wonders about the broader implications: "One question that remains unanswered is why the store's wireless network was apparently so easy to access."

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Comments

[Nathaniel Banks]

07:01 AM on 04/16/2012

"Oh look mommy, what is that man doing to that woman?"

[HollisHoHo]

05:04 AM on 02/24/2012

Big Deal. I applaud the hacker.

[blizzard man robot voice]

06:54 PM on 02/23/2012

"I see you bought a new xbox game, we only charge $50 to help you install it" - Geek Squad.

[PenguinLinux]

03:11 PM on 02/23/2012

QUICK!! Call Geek Squad to secure their network /snark_off LuLz!!

[YouPornJude]

12:32 PM on 02/23/2012

YouPorn's Official Statement & Clarification of Facts can be found at http://blog.youporn.com/youporn-data-not-exposed/

[thechrisenglish]

11:24 AM on 02/23/2012

Depends on what network they had that tv connected to. Honestly if its the non broadcast SSID with no password that they use in their stores, then ten seconds with a smart tv remote and I could get the SSID, connect to the tv, and put whatever I'd like on the screen. Knowing how that store works I wouldn't be surprised if one of the sales associates connected it to that network rather than to one of the WPA2 secured networks they have in the stores. What happened to the good old days of loading a porn dvd in one of the combo units and pressing play and walking away. Also, this really wasn't hacking, this was someone with a smart phone pushing a picture to a television.

[iamwired]

08:43 AM on 02/24/2012

Exactly.

[StopStephenHarper]

08:27 PM on 02/22/2012

I guess you just can't depend on default passwords.

[PenguinLinux]

03:12 PM on 02/23/2012

Can't depend on wifi either.

[avas]

04:58 PM on 02/22/2012

In August of 2008 the following happened to me and my family which consisted of two an 8 year old and 6 year old. No one did a thing for us. This happened at the Mystic Dunes Resort & Golf Club 7900 Mystic Dunes Lane, Celebration, FL 34747 (Formerly Wyndham Palms Resort) . Our television had profanity written on the title descriptions--beware if you have children. Obviously the tv had also been hacked somehow.

[lkgilles]

07:44 PM on 02/22/2012

Why would you expect someone to do something for you? Stuff happens.

[StinkyMoBub]

04:42 PM on 02/22/2012

"Two individuals accessed our store's wireless signal to broadcast inappropriate content on a smart television display."

Smells like an inside job if they know there were "Two" individuals.

And "smart" television - says who?

[iamwired]

03:22 PM on 02/22/2012

Probably employees, since they know it was two guys.

[Angrykitteh]

01:54 PM on 02/22/2012

Nothing fun EVER happens at my Best Buy...damn!

[Daniella Capolino]

01:45 PM on 02/22/2012

"Costumers?" WTF. Doesn't anyone proofread ANYTHING anymore? I mean, it's not like this is an email to a friend. This is an ARTICLE on a website! Ridiculous.

[Benbo]

02:18 PM on 02/22/2012

I think you just explained it. This is an article on a website. Not exactly the height of publishing prestige.

[Techboy308]

01:38 PM on 02/22/2012

Seems to me that Best Buy had a problem with their internal wireless network a few years ago to the point where people were able to sit in the parking lot and pick up people's credit card information. You'd think they'd have learned.

Maybe the Geek Squad needs to be even "geekier."

[StinkyMoBub]

04:43 PM on 02/22/2012

Ya get what ya pay for when it comes to IT talent...

[joemaf21]

05:45 PM on 02/22/2012

Geek Squad sucks, Never use best buy to fix you're computer, I brought them my computer once, which had a virus, when I got it back, they said there was nothing they could do, I opened it up and the motherboard had been shattered.