Man charged for hacking Super Bowl feed, inserting porn

By Liam Tung on Feb 9, 2011 12:34 PM
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Touchdown spoiler nabbed.

A man accused of hacking Comcast's live feed of the 2009 Super Bowl to replace it with hardcore pornography has been arrested.

The Tucson, Arizona Police department and the FBI arrested Frank Tanori Gonzalez on charges of fraud and computer tampering this week.

"These charges relate to the 37-second X-rated pornography interruption of Comcast's Tucson 2009 Super Bowl broadcast," said Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne. "As a result of the alleged tampering to its servers, Comcast suffered significant economic losses."

Instead of seeing Arizona Cardinal's superstar Larry Fitzgerald complete a touchdown during the year's biggest football match, Comcast's Tucson viewers were treated with half a minute of well-known porn star Evan Stone "swinging his junk around like a maniac", according to Gizmodo, which reported on the incident at the time.

At the time Comcast said it was "mortified" by the interruption.

Man charged for hacking Super Bowl feed, inserting porn

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"@Corsair - and so he should. Why, them murderers an' rapists are jest doin' what comes natural, but porn now, that's serious crime in the sight of the Lahd Gard."

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Comments: 3

BaysNet Feb 9, 2011 1:16 PM	The glory seeking hackers aren't the ones you need to be worried about. A year to charge him after he very publicly advertised he had tampered with their servers doesn't sound to good to me.
Corsair Feb 11, 2011 12:33 PM	He'll probably be given a longer sentence than murderers and rapists.
anonymous Feb 11, 2011 4:34 PM	@Corsair - and so he should. Why, them murderers an' rapists are jest doin' what comes natural, but porn now, that's serious crime in the sight of the Lahd Gard.