Russian police have arrested the hacker who last month projected some adult entertainment on an enormous video screen in Moscow, giving locals around two minutes unexpurgated coverage of “a white male and a black female having sex”.

According to Pravda, the grumble flick appeared at 11pm on 14 January on an giant display on the city’s Garden Ring Road. Some gobsmacked Muscovites grabbed the action on their mobile phones (see still), but shaken passer-by Alyona Prokulatova told AP she was “so shocked that I couldn’t even shoot video or take a picture of it”.

The commerical director of Panno.ru, which operates the screen, said last month: “Most likely, a commercial video was replaced with an adult one when the control computer was hacked.” Correct, polices sources have confirmed, following the arrest of an unnamed 40-year-old unemployed man in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.

The perp, who has previous form, “repeatedly hacked other people’s computers simply out of curiosity to master his skills”, according to the authorities.

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