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How hackers faked a zombie apocalypse alert on live TV

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 03, 2026
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On February 11, 2013, someone hacked into the Emergency Alert Systems of at least five TV stations and broadcast a message warning viewers that “the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living.” KRTV in Great Falls, Montana, was first. WKBT-DT in La Crosse, Wisconsin, followed. Then WBUP and WNMU…

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