Vivendi cleared for hacker inquiry

Paris court agrees to firm's independent look at voting system
A Paris court has agreed to give media conglomerate Vivendi the opportunity to independently examine the wireless voting system which it claims was hacked following the vote results of a recent shareholder meeting.
Vivendi and two of the company's largest shareholders, Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA and Societe Generale, jointly filed the petition with the Paris Commercial Court. The court hearing was held on Thursday (yesterday).

Independent investigators will examine a number of voting terminals, the transmitter which communicated with the terminals and the system's hard disk drive.

The equipment had been put under seal following a meeting of bailiffs who were responsible for making sure the shareholder vote was conducted fairly.

Vivendi's board are set to hold a second shareholder meeting to repeat the votes.