Pete Muntean

WUSA-TV, Washington

WASHINGTON — People passing through busy Washington Union Station got quite a surprise Monday night. For a few minutes, a porn site popped up on some screens inside the train station.

One Twitter user claimed to have been present for the surprise screening.



“The monitors at Union Station just started playing Pornhub,” user _joannaw posted at 5:34 p.m. Monday. (Pornhub is a popular free porn site.)



Station managers told WUSA9 that the screens, which have only been around a few months, were hacked. They would not elaborate, but said an investigation is underway.

“Fortunately it was quickly turned off,” said Beverley Swaim-Staley of the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation.



The vertically-oriented monitors are supposed to be touch screen maps of the station. Swaim-Staley says developers of the screens “are doing their due diligence” before turning them back on again.

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