At Kelowna International, flight screens displayed the proclamation that “Israel lost the war, Hamas won the war honorably. You are a pig, Donald Trump.”

How had been the airports hacked?

Victoria Airport Authority instructed CTV News that the hack concerned somebody moving into their cloud-based public handle system by means of a software program supplier.

“As a result, a file containing unauthorized audio content was uploaded externally and played for a few minutes throughout the terminal,” they stated. “Our operations team responded immediately and successfully stopped the broadcast.”

An identical assertion was shared by Harrisburg International spokesman Scott Miller, who instructed WGAL that their PA system was taken offline after an unauthorized particular person gained entry.

“It was not a threat, that’s the important thing,” he added, noting that there’s nonetheless an energetic police investigation into the incident.

Online reactions to the airport hacks

Hacking an airport PA system might trigger much more disruption than was finally on show right here, however as Miller famous, this gorgeous clearly wasn’t about creating panic or making any kind of risk. While the pro-Trump, pro-Israel crowd is fairly up in arms about it, others are discovering it at the very least a bit bit amusing.

“ppl hack everything BUT Sallie Mae and clear everyone’s f*cking loans,” @danibabeey commented on TikTok.

“i loved the self promo “hacked by ___” LMAO,” stated @gojos_armpit, whereas @babdoll267 added, “Imagine shutting down the government and realizing you forgot to pay cybersecurity.”

“What radio station is this I’d like to request they play this song again,” one other particular person joked.

This was a stark distinction from happenings over on X, the place quite a lot of blue examine accounts had been targeted on insinuating that hacking right into a PA system means the whole airport is totally insecure at each stage and simply being usually racist.

Although one particular person did counsel that perhaps that was the purpose, calling it a “false hack to stir up islamophobia.”

“No group is going to hack an airport PA to basically do nothing but say ‘We, ‘cyber Islam’ Hacked your airport PA,’” they wrote.

Guess we’ll simply wait to see if FBI director Kash Patel finds a laptop computer used for hacking the system with “PRO-HAMAS” engraved throughout the highest!

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