Colorado Media Newsroom
November 16th, 2022, 07:18 PM
From Radio Insight:
https://i0.wp.com/radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2022/11/ktwo.jpg?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1Users of the station app for Townsquare Media News/Talk “K2 Radio (https://k2radio.com)” 1030 KTWO/95.1 K236CX Casper WY were sent multiple push notifications late last night with antisemitic messages and Nazi propaganda.
Townsquare Casper Market President Tom McCarthy, who was the subject of some of the messages, told the Casper Tribune (https://trib.com/news/local/casper/k2-radio-app-sends-out-antisemitic-news-alerts-in-hack-incident/article_9e63c4f0-65d5-11ed-87fb-67ee8928664a.html) that they company’s development team was working to identify and fix the system vulnerabilities that caused the breach. He also stated, “We are confident it is not a current employee of Townsquare.”
We have seen all of the messages sent out by the KTWO app. The one shared by the Twitter user below was the least offensive of the messages sent.
I think Wyoming?s K2 Radio App was hacked https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f633.png
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/245206/wyoming-station-app-sends-out-antisemitic-alerts/)
https://i0.wp.com/radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2022/11/ktwo.jpg?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1Users of the station app for Townsquare Media News/Talk “K2 Radio (https://k2radio.com)” 1030 KTWO/95.1 K236CX Casper WY were sent multiple push notifications late last night with antisemitic messages and Nazi propaganda.
Townsquare Casper Market President Tom McCarthy, who was the subject of some of the messages, told the Casper Tribune (https://trib.com/news/local/casper/k2-radio-app-sends-out-antisemitic-news-alerts-in-hack-incident/article_9e63c4f0-65d5-11ed-87fb-67ee8928664a.html) that they company’s development team was working to identify and fix the system vulnerabilities that caused the breach. He also stated, “We are confident it is not a current employee of Townsquare.”
We have seen all of the messages sent out by the KTWO app. The one shared by the Twitter user below was the least offensive of the messages sent.
I think Wyoming?s K2 Radio App was hacked https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f633.png
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/245206/wyoming-station-app-sends-out-antisemitic-alerts/)