TV station hacker warns of zombies in Montana

GREAT FALLS, Mon­tana (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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