Lithuania probes TV station cyber attack which published fake news story

The IP address of the hacker has been traced to St Petersburg in Russia.

The IP address was traced to Russia

By Associated Press Reporters

A probe has been launched into a cyber attack against a Lithuanian TV station.

The commercial outlet TV3 said it was hacked late on Thursday, with a fake news story appearing on the channel’s website accusing defence minister Raimundas Karoblis of sexually harassing a local radio journalist.