Attack By Zombies EAS Alert Transmitted In Montana

KRTV3 (Great Falls, Montana) is reporting that someone hacked into their Emergency Alert System Monday afternoon and transmitted an announcement  over the air via an EAS Alert that “bodies of the dead are rising from their graves.”

The station quickly assured viewers that “there is no emergency” and says “our engineers are investigating to determine what happened.”

According to the Great Falls Tribune, the fake emergency alert was issued during afternoon programming on KRTV, a CBS affiliate. The station says the hacking came from an outside source and station officials are working to find out how this happened.

The alert featured a scrolling warning for various Montana counties and a voice-over claimed there were “dead bodies rising from the grave and attacking the living” and urged people to use caution.

“Do not attempt to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous,” it went on to say.

Lt. Shane Sorensen with the GFPD said he’s not sure yet what sort of penalties a person faces, if any, in Montana for hacking into an emergency alert system. But he said the police department did receive phone calls from people who were concerned after they saw the message.