One such incident took house inward Dallas on Fri nighttime when hacker triggered a network of 156 emergency warning sirens for nearly 2 hours, waking upwards residents in addition to sparking fears of a disaster.
The emergency warning sirens — designed to warn citizens of the Texas nearly unsafe conditions conditions, such every bit severe storms in addition to tornados — were activated or in addition to then 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 telephone 911 every bit at that spot was non whatsoever emergency province of affairs inward the city, only the 911 organisation was all the same flooded alongside 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 nearly fifteen times for 90-second durations. You tin laissez passer on the sack fifty-fifty spotter video footage of the incident posted past times some people on the social media.
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The metropolis officials said the sirens were railroad train off past times a hacker who compromised the Dallas city's emergency alert system, only they did non let out how the organisation was compromised or who may live responsible for the attack.
"We tin laissez passer on the sack solid soil at this fourth dimension that the City’s siren organisation 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, only nosotros create believe that the hack came from the Dallas area."The officials convey notified the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for assistance inward identifying the exact root of the hack.
This is the minute fourth dimension when some hacker has attacked critical infrastructure inward the city. Last year, some unknown hacker hacked into some traffic signals inward Dallas in addition to used them to release jokes.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings noted on his Facebook page that the incident is yet "another serious representative of the withdraw for us to upgrade in addition to meliorate safeguard our city’s technology scientific discipline infrastructure," adding that they’re working on identifying in addition to prosecuting those responsible for the attack.
