Hackers have been taking over radio station signals around the U.S. to play a rap song making a rude references to President Donald Trump.
Greenville, S.C. NBC affiliate WYFF reports “Sunny 107.9 WFBS, in Salem, was hacked around 8:10 p.m. and a voice repeated “F— you Donald Trump” over and over for about 10 minutes.”
From the radio station’s Facebook page:
Our internet has been HACKED at our transmitter site and the station has played anti-Trump songs. This is NOT our broadcast! We at WFBS do not take political views! The FCC and WFBS are working together to fix this situation ASAP.
We may be on or off the air while fixing, this is happening all over the country. Again we hold our political views to ourselves in these statements and or songs made on the air are not that of WFBS 197.9 FM. We have captured the IP address and that will be forwarded to the government authorities and the FCC for prosecution.
RT America reports the hacks have been happening since Trump’s inauguration in Nashville, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; Evansville, Indiana; Salem, South Carolina and San Angelo, Texas.
A video featuring the song appeared on a cable television provider in Mooresville, North Carolina.
The Mooresville Tribune reports the audio played when hackers accessed local cable outlet MI-Connection’s audio feed from WHIP radio.
The 25-second audio interrupted the airing of a Davidson College basketball game on MI-Connection’s channel 4. The audio, a rap song making vulgar references to President Donald Trump, repeated in a loop for about 30 minutes before officials were alerted by a viewer and engineers were able to remove it, said David Auger, general manager of Mooresville-based MI-Connection.