Hacker Caused Panic Inwards Dallas Past Times Turning On Every Emergency Siren At Once

We convey seen hackers flooding 911 emergency service amongst rogue requests to knock the service offline for an entire state, but some hacking incidents are worse than others.

One such incident took house inwards Dallas on Fri nighttime when hacker triggered a network of 156 emergency warning sirens for virtually ii hours, waking upwards residents in addition to sparking fears of a disaster.

The emergency warning sirens — designed to warn citizens of the Texas virtually unsafe weather condition conditions, such every bit severe storms in addition to tornados — were activated only about 11:40 p.m. Fri in addition to lasted until 1:20 a.m. Saturday.

The metropolis officials tried to inform residents non to telephone band 911 every bit at that topographic point was non whatsoever emergency province of affairs inwards the city, but the 911 organization was yet flooded amongst over 4,400 calls from panicked residents.

Rocky Vaz, manager of Dallas Office of Emergency Management (OEM), told the Dallas Morning News that the alarms blasted virtually fifteen times for 90-second durations. You tin fifty-fifty picket video footage of the incident posted yesteryear some people on the social media.

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The OEM technicians were eventually able to closed downwards the warning organization in addition to are working to leave of absence along this from happening i time again yesteryear implementing "more safeguards."

The metropolis officials said the sirens were gear upwards off yesteryear a hacker who compromised the Dallas city's emergency alert system, but they did non divulge how the organization was compromised or who may live responsible for the attack.

"We tin field at this fourth dimension that the City’s siren organization was hacked Fri night," the Dallas Public Information Office confirmed on Saturday. "For safety reasons, nosotros cannot hash out the details of how this was done, but nosotros produce believe that the hack came from the Dallas area."

The officials convey notified the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for assistance inwards identifying the exact rootage of the hack.

This is the minute fourth dimension when some hacker has attacked critical infrastructure inwards the city. Last year, some unknown hacker hacked into some traffic signals inwards Dallas in addition to used them to bring out jokes.

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings noted on his Facebook page that the incident is yet "another serious representative of the require for us to upgrade in addition to amend safeguard our city’s technology scientific discipline infrastructure," adding that they’re working on identifying in addition to prosecuting those responsible for the attack.

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