Goatse image on billboards in Atlanta
- Event Year
- 2015
- Reliability
- Confirmed
- Country
- United States
- Industry
- Transportation
- Attack Type
- Targeted Attack
Description
In May 2015 several digital billboards in the Atlanta metro area were hijacked and used to display the long-running shock image known as 'Goatse'. The billboards were operated by YESCO Outdoor Media and were reachable via internet-exposed remote-management interfaces.
Impact
The billboards were taken offline within hours; no other systems were affected. The incident is widely cited in OT/IoT security training as a small-stakes example of internet-exposed signage being trivially compromised.
Sources
Source list compiled from OTCAD (Stash Kempinski / Secura, GPL-3.0). Description is risidata's own prose.