A Metropolitan Transportation Authority meeting’s virtual feed was interrupted Wednesday by a raunchy image pleasuring himself — in an X-rated moment the agency’s head honcho awkwardly blamed on “penetration” by hackers.
Viewers were shocked when the image of a naked man spreading his legs and touching himself appeared on the screen while a union boss began speaking during the meeting’s public commentary portion.
The words “hacked by ccp facer” were watermarked above the NSFW image.
MTA Chairman Janno Lieber later attributed the indecent incident to a group of people who used phony credentials to follow the meeting online.
“What appears to have happened is that a group of people — and there was a group — got online and had a bunch of fake identities,” Lieber told reporters.
“And one of them succeeded in penetrating and getting that — what do they call that? — Zoom bomb or something?” he added. “And then they celebrated online”
The feed had quickly switched away from the pornographic image and back to the MTA board meeting where an MTA employee blurted out, “We got hacked.”
“I think you should make a comment about that,” another worker said.
Lieber said the interrupted speaker would be invited back to finish his statement.
“It shut down within literally a second or two,” Lieber said, promising the MTA would work with its IT department to make sure it doesn’t happen again. “Obviously, an unpleasant, unpleasant moment.”
Last week NBC4 reported that a virtual Zoom meeting between New Jersey election officials and dozens of news outlets was hacked with pornographic images. The outlet said the state attorney general is investigating that hacking.
In February 2021 a group hacked a virtual meeting of City Council members with a NSFW image.
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