TV station hacker warns of zombies in Montana

[andrew8798]

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.

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[stevieboy]

Wish there was video. For some reason I love it when TV channels get hacked... The couple of times it has happened.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

In before someone posts the Max Headroom Incid-ah, what the Hell, I'll do it. Warning for partial buttocks and general WTFery:

[Blindkarevik]

Not 100% sure of the legitimacy... but real or not, I'm pretty certain this is how it went down.

[CM Dazz]

Feb 12, 2013 15:25:53 GMT -5 SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman said:

In before someone posts the Max Headroom Incid-ah, what the Hell, I'll do it. Warning for partial buttocks and general WTFery:

I remember watching this live, with my parents, in the basement of our old house. Crazy as shit at the time.

[Talent Name]

That is crazy, its funny when it happens to the highway signs, also Zombies in Montana sounds like an awesome death metal band nme

[Bo Rida]

Idiots, have they never heard the story of the boy that cried "Zombie"?

Now when the real zombie outbreak happens people won't believe it.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

I guess Captain Midnight's back?

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

Feb 12, 2013 15:43:36 GMT -5 Blindkarevik said:

Not 100% sure of the legitimacy... but real or not, I'm pretty certain this is how it went down.

Well, if that's the real deal, I can safely say it improved the quality of what was being broadcast tenfolds.

[andrew8798]

[Deleted]

Montana's such a random place for the zombie apocalypse to begin. You'd expect it to start in New York or LA or Chicago, but Montana?

[Mochi Lone Wolf]

Did they ever catch the "Max Headroom hacker"?

[andrew8798]

nope