Monday, July 13, 2015

Terre Haute Radio: WXXR-LPFM Claims Activists Hacked On-Air Audio

Modern Rock WXXR 97.3 LP-FM The Bird in Terre Haute, IN was apparently the victim of hacking Sunday night.

According to the station, someone purporting to be representating the activist group 'Anonymous' Sunday evening hacked their on-air programming and broadcast a message for about 30-minutes.  The station was then returned to its regular music programming.

“Anonymous” has claimed reponsiblity for hacking websites around the world  to express their views and messages.

Doug Kirkman, with WXXR spoke with News10-TV.  Kirkman stated, “We are unaware of where the broadcast origin is. It did actually appear to be coming underneath our actual signal. When we looked at our computers and everything at the broadcast station, everything appeared normal though it was quite obviously not normal.”

The radio station is investigating this hacking through the night.

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