Dallas residents were jolted out of bed recenyly after a hacker triggered all the city's emergency sirens, setting off a wave of panic and confusion. All 156 emergency sirens were activated around 11:40 p.m. in what appeared to be a hacking incident that "woke up a lot of people," Sana Syed, managing director of public information for the city of Dallas, said at a news conference on Saturday.
As the sirens blared, frightened residents called emergency services and took to social media to voice concern and learn what had happened. Emergency dispatchers received around 4,400 calls between 11:40 and 3:00 a.m., Syed said. The rush of inquiries caused a backlog, forcing some callers to wait up to six minutes to speak with emergency personnel. In response to the deluge of inquiries, the city's FBI office posted a tweet informing residents there was "no active emergency."
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/08/us/dallas-alarm-hack/
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