Police investigate Best Buy TV porn

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Athima Chansanchai

Police are now investigating how porn infiltrated one Best Buy store's Wi-Fi network, forcing the store to issue an apology to shocked customers.

The last thing a family browsing in the TV section at its local Best Buy in Greenville, S.C., expected to see is 55-inches of pornographic images, but that's what happened earlier this week to a woman in the store shopping with her son and grandchildren. She filed a complaint with the Greenville Police Department.

And that's not the only time it happened, as the store's manager admitted it had happened the night before the woman reported her incident. An image was apparently uploaded through the Wi-Fi network and uploaded to a smart TV.

NBC affiliate WECT reported on the apology issued by the chain's corporate office:

"Two individuals accessed our store's wireless signal to broadcast inappropriate content on a smart television display. In both cases, we worked immediately to disable the inappropriate content. We greatly apologize for this unfortunate incident and we are working to ensure that it does not happen again."

UPDATE (9:37 a.m.) -- We reached out to the Greenville Police Department, and Officer Alia Urps told us that they're going through footage from in-store cameras to see who was there those evenings. Police suspect someone using a tablet or other mobile device streamed the image to the smart TV. But because there is no hard drive on the TV, it didn't ?save the offending material.
Officer Urps said that even if they were to find the culprit, "It would be difficult to prove the person sent that particular image." The charge would be disseminating obscene material.

"This is something we?ve not seen before," Urps said. "It'll be good for us to figure out what to do with this one. It'll serve as a foundation for further incidents."

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Source: http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/police-investigate-porn-infiltration-best-buy-tv-screens-190267

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