MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) – Police in Kazakhstan said Wednesday that they were investigating an unsanctioned screening of a pornographic movie at a concert hall in the ex-Soviet nation’s largest city.
The film was screened on Monday on a large video billboard above an entrance to the Palace of the Republic in downtown Almaty, Kazakhstan’s Soviet-era capital, local media reported. The hall’s administration blamed the incident on a hacker attack, the reports said.
Almaty city police said those responsible for the screening would face two charges: illegal access to computer information and illegal dissemination of pornography. The first charge is punishable by up to a year in prison, the second – by up to two years.
A Russian hacker who uploaded a pornographic movie onto a video billboard above a busy Moscow road in 2010 was sentenced to six years in a penal colony.
