Hawaii Gets Fake Alert About Inbound Missile
Source: The Daily Beast
Hawaii residents woke up to a text message warning of an imminent missile attack on Saturday, though authorities quickly said there was no such threat. “Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek shelter immediately. This is not a drill,” the warning read. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency tweeted out a statement saying there is “no missile threat” to the area after news of the alerts had flooded Twitter. Authorities have yet to comment on the source of the bogus alerts.
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should we suspect the Russians? or North Koreans? or Trump for the faulty warning?
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Still shaking here on Maui. 
I'm glad it was a false alarm. I have several family members who live there. 
From their troubles.
Message: "Let's bomb NK before they CAN do this!" War...war...now.
That's the ticket.
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D) saying that TRump needs to do something immediately about this threat. Talks need to begin immediately.
What a terrifying experience. 
It was Hawaiian Emergency Management.
(Civil Defense.)
nytimes.com
Hawaii Panics After Alert About Incoming Missile Is Sent in Error
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-missile.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Adam Nagourney, David E. Sanger and Johanna Barr
8-10 minutes
An image of the alert sent to cellphones on Saturday morning.
An early-morning emergency alert mistakenly warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack was dispatched to cellphones across Hawaii on Saturday, setting off widespread panic in a state that was already on emotional edge because of escalating tensions between the United States and North Korea.
Officials cancelled the alert, sent out by Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, nearly 40 minutes after it was issued in a scramble of confusion over why it was released — and why it took so long to rescind. Outrage was immediately expressed by state officials and among people who live in what is normally a famously tranquil part of the Pacific, as well as tourists swept up in the panic.
“The public must have confidence in our emergency alert system,” the governor, David Y. Ige, said. “I am working to get to the bottom of this so we can prevent an error of this type in the future.”
Officials said the alert was the result of human error and not the work of hackers or a foreign government. The mistake occurred during a shift-change drill that takes place three times a day at the emergency command post, according to Richard Rapoza, a spokesman for the agency. He said a new procedure was put in place hours after the mistake requiring two-step authentication before any such alert is sent out.
At no time, officials said, was there any indication that a nuclear attack had been launched on the United States.
The Federal Communications Commission announced Saturday afternoon it had begun “a full investigation into the FALSE missile alert in Hawaii.”
The alert went out at about 8:10 a.m., lighting up phones of people still in bed, having coffee by the beach at a Waikiki resort, or up for an early surf. “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” it read.
Hawaii has been on high emotional alert — it began staging monthly air-raid drills, complete with sirens, in December — since President Trump and Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, began exchanging nuclear threats. It would take about 37 minutes for a missile launched from North Korea to reach Hawaii; Honolulu is 5,700 miles from Pyongyang.
