Hackers were responsible for tornado sirens sounding across Dallas Friday night, officials said.
In today’s day and age, I can only think that the intent behind this hack was to ensue panic and terror. As such these hackers once caught should be charged with terrorism.
The only reason, to commit such an act is to achieve such goals. If it was thought to be a “prank”, a poor one at that, then even still; the terrorism charges should stand. With everything going on in the country, or even the world for that matter; domestic terrorism like this should be punished harshly!
Dallas officials said Saturday they believe the hack came from someone in the area, Fox 4 News reported.
The sirens started to blare at around 11:40 p.m. Friday night. Rocky Vaz, an Office of Emergency Management official, said the hack caused 156 sirens to go off across Dallas. It led to a surge in 911 calls.
Emergency crews were forced to manually turn off the sirens early Saturday.
Authorities have not released any information as to who is possibly behind the hack.