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France Launches Investigation Into Cyberattack on TV5Monde Broadcaster

© Flickr / Alejandro JuárezFrench authorities have opened an investigation into the recent terrorist cyberattack on the French television network TV5Monde
French authorities have opened an investigation into the recent terrorist cyberattack on the French television network TV5Monde - Sputnik International
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French network TV5 Monde's channels were hacked by ISIL-affiliated hackers on Wednesday night with 11 channels, the network's website and social media accounts knocked out.

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PARIS (Sputnik) — French authorities have opened an investigation into the recent terrorist cyberattack on the French television network TV5Monde, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday.

French network TV5 Monde's channels were hacked on Wednesday night with 11 channels, the network's website and social media accounts knocked out. The hackers posted documents on the channel's Facebook page, which presumably belong to the relatives of French troops who participated in operations against Islamic State group in Iraq.

"The investigation is launched. We have been faced with determined terrorists, and we are determined to fight them."

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During a meeting at the channel's office, broadcast by BFMTV, Cazeneuve also said that cybersecurity measures would be reinforced in France and added that the government had "repeatedly emphasized the seriousness of such a threat."

In his turn, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who also visited the TV5 Monde's office, said that all measures are being taken to

"find the perpetrators, punish them, restore the broadcasting and avoid future similar cyberattacks that could threaten freedom of expression."

France is a member of the US-led coalition which is currently fighting ISIL militants in Iraq. In January, France was hit by a wave of terrorist attacks, claiming 17 lives within a couple of days.

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In early January, the Charlie Hebdo weekly magazine’s Paris office was attacked by two Islamist gunmen, killing 12 people. Later in the week, another radicalized Muslim, Amedy Coulibaly, killed a police officer and four Jewish shoppers at a kosher food store in the French capital.

The Islamic State is an extremist Sunni militant group in control of large portions of Syria and Iraq. It is notorious for its many human-rights atrocities, including on-camera executions of foreign hostages, later posted online.

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