At least two segments of RecordTV’s programming escaped the “hijacking” of the channel’s main recording file, which has been in the possession of “hackers” since last Saturday morning (08).
The house’s soap operas will be shown normally, with no breaks or chapter changes.
All of Universal Church’s programming also escaped and aired without issue.
Because the telenovelas are also stored in other archives, such as those of the producer Casablanca, a dramaturgy partner.
Universal IT
At Universal, all latenight programs were shown without any problems.
Reason: Bishop Edir Macedo’s church has its own IT (information technology) department, which is said to be even larger and better protected behind the scenes than Record’s.
Universal also has its own data storage files that are completely isolated from the broadcaster.
ransom demand
As of Saturday, Record has been unable to access any prerecorded content: reports, recordings, interviews and entertainment images that are recorded are completely inaccessible (except for church and soap operas, as noted above).
In the rest of the programming, the station does almost everything live or uses content from physical files such as “maps”, discs and even tapes.
An unknown group of hackers used a kind of “virus” that entered the station’s files, hijacking and encrypting them.
Roughly speaking, it’s like a thief breaking into your house, changing the lock and leaving you outside. Until you pay him what he wants.
The case is just that: the ‘hacker’ group would demand R$25 million to return the ‘key’ to Record. The negotiations are ongoing.
Record has not commented since Saturday, despite this column’s insistence.
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