Moscow radio stations and TV channels broadcast false reports of an airstrike on Thursday after their servers were hacked, the state-run TASS news agency was told at the office of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, CNN reports.
“As a result of a cyber attack on the servers of radio stations and TV channels in Moscow, a false message about an air raid was announced. The Moscow Department of Emergency Situations informs that the alarm is false and not real,” the department said in a statement, TASS reports.
A similar incident occurred on February 28, when false reports of airstrikes were announced in 15 regions of Russia, TASS reports.
A fake airstrike report was also broadcast on radio and television in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region on Thursday after servers used by broadcasters there were hacked, state media reported.
Source: Hot News
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