Hackers Hijack TV Network, Broadcast Zombie Apocalypse Bulletin

Posted by | February 12, 2013 09:55 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Top Stories


It wasn’t quite “The Walking Dead”, but still…

A scheduled TV programme about teenage love cheats is interrupted on Monday by a warning of a zombie apocalypse. The Montana Television Network says hackers broke into its emergency alert system and broadcast the fake newsflash.

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By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.