Montana emergency alert system hacked. Zombies!

[Pheran]

Someone hacked into the emergency alert system for a Montana TV station and this was the result:

YouTube video of alert

Denial from the station

LOL, I wonder if anyone believed it.

 

[techs]

http://news.yahoo.com/tv-station-hacker-warns-zombies-montana-002641825.html

TV station hacker warns of zombies in Montana

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana television station's regular programming was interrupted by news of a zombie apocalypse.

The Montana Television Network says hackers broke into the Emergency Alert System of Great Falls affiliate KRTV and its CW station Monday.

KRTV says on its website the hackers broadcast that "dead bodies are rising from their graves" in several Montana counties.

The alert claimed the bodies were "attacking the living" and warned people not to "approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous."

The network says there is no emergency and its engineers are investigating.

A call to KRTV was referred to a Montana Television Network executive in Bozeman. Jon Saunders didn't immediately return a call for comment.

The Great Falls Tribune reports the hoax alert generated at least four calls to police to see if it was true.



Government is trying to cover it up but I know the truth.
Montana. I always knew it was a bad place to die.

 

[Pheran]

Good, simultaneous thread merge. Thank you mods.

EDIT: But the title change ruins the video surprise.

 

[allisolm]

I merged the 2 threads. You tied on posting time. Techs had the best title but Pheran's was the most informative (although I added Zombies! to it for popularity's sake) . Pheran links the video but techs posted the information about what happened.

 

[bigrash]

lol that's hilarious. Wonder how many people fell for it.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I just got a phone call from Bozeman Montana. I don't know anyone in Bozeman and there was no message left. I wonder if the zombies have already seized control of communications in Montana.

 

[Krazy4Real]

LMAO!

 

[JTsyo]

lol that's hilarious. Wonder how many people fell for it.

We won't know until they come out of their bunkers.

 

[jlarsson]

lol that's hilarious. Wonder how many people fell for it.

From the article linked above:

The Great Falls Tribune reports the hoax alert generated at least four calls to police to see if it was true.

 

[techs]

Calling the police to ask if there is a Zombie apocalypse?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Calling the police to ask if there is a Zombie apocalypse?

Too bad the cops didn't think to answer the phone with: "Braaaaaaaaaainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnssssssss!"

 

[ManBearPig]

I didn't see anything about zombies in the emergency alert.

 

[clamum]

I didn't see anything about zombies in the emergency alert.

Did you have your speakers/headphones on?

 

[ManBearPig]

Did you have your speakers/headphones on?

Oh. No.

 

[SagaLore]

lol that's hilarious. Wonder how many people fell for it.

Only 3 people did, about 7 dead and a dozen more wounded from shotgun blasts to the head and attempted machete neck chops.

 

[4eigner]

Awww! Totally missed out. Must've been later in the morning.

 

[techs]

How stupid are people from Bozeman?

They can't tell a Zombie from a Vulcan.

 

[Zargon]

chick on show is totally bangable