Ukraine and Russia report cyberattacks on emergency apps

🗞️ Story file #1245

Ukraine and Russia report cyberattacks on emergency apps

Nov 1, 10 PM ET to Nov 2, 3 PM ET

19outlets carried it
🫏10 · 3 · 6🐘left · center · right
17 hourson the front pages
21front pages at once, at its peak
73 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
2 of 2parts of a saga

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Nov 1, 10 PM ETfirst on a front page: Fox News
Nov 1, 10 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Nov 2, 7 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Nov 2, 2 PM ETpeak: on 21 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 1, 10 PM to Nov 2, 3 PM ET (peak 19), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word

BBC

💬 Quoted

“Hackers”1
“Imminent Nuclear Strike”1
“huge cyber attack”1
“NUCLEAR warheads have launched”1
“hacked by enemy”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

🗣️ Only one side says

🫏 left
nothing of its own

🐘 right
false nuclear

phrases three or more outlets on one side used and none on the other

📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Drudge Report · Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 10 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

BBC (4 wordings): “Russia and Ukraine say emergency alert apps were hit by apparent cyber-attacks” → “Fake nuclear warning from hacked app sparks unease but not panic in Ukraine”
Breitbart (3 wordings): “Kyiv, Moscow Citizens Receive ‘Imminent Nuclear Strike’ Alerts” → “Kyiv, Moscow Citizens Receive Imminent Nuclear Strike Alerts After ‘Hackers’ Hit Civil Defence Apps”
CNBC (2 wordings): “Fake nuclear warnings in Ukraine as Moscow, Kyiv report separate cyberattacks on emergency apps” → “Moscow, Kyiv report cyberattacks after Ukrainians get fake nuclear alert warnings”
New York Post (3 wordings): “Hackers breach emergency alert apps in Ukraine and Russia with fake warnings of nuclear attacks” → “Hackers breached emergency alert apps in Ukraine and Russia overnight, issuing fake warnings of nuclear attacks and high radiation levels.”
Reuters (2 wordings): “Ukraine and Russia say emergency alert apps were hit by hacks” → “Hackers hit Ukraine and Russia's emergency apps, send fake nuclear alerts”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Ukraine and Russia say emergency air-raid warning systems hit by cyber-hacks” → “Hackers send fake nuclear threat alert to Ukraine emergency app”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Ukraine war live: Ukrainians receive fake nuclear emergency alert after app ‘hacked by enemy’” → “Ukrainians receive fake nuclear emergency alert”
The Sun (3 wordings): “NUCLEAR ALERT Millions in Ukraine & Russia warned 'NUCLEAR warheads have launched’ after emergency apps hacked in ‘huge cyber attack'” → “NUKE HOAX Hackers could hijack UK phones to spark nuke terror after Ukraine & Russia alerts”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Ukraine and Russia both report cyberattacks on emergency apps” → “Ukrainian and Russian emergency alert apps send false warnings after hacks”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Fake nuclear alerts hit Ukrainians and Russians on the same day” → “Ukraine and Russia both get fake nuclear attack warnings just hours apart”

📰 Every outlet's headline 19left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian🕒 Nov 2, 5 AM ET Ukraine and Russia say emergency air-raid warning systems hit by cyber-hacks
Business Insider🕒 Nov 2, 1 AM ET Fake nuclear attack alerts hit millions of Ukrainians and Russians on the same day
CBS News🕒 Nov 2, 1 PM ET Hacked alert apps send Ukrainians, Russians fake attack warnings
CNBC🕒 Nov 2, 7 AM ET Fake nuclear warnings in Ukraine as Moscow, Kyiv report separate cyberattacks on emergency apps
CNN🕒 Nov 2, 6 AM ET Fake warnings of nuclear attack posted on hacked Russian and Ukrainian emergency apps
NBC News🕒 Nov 2, 2 PM ET Fake alerts warn of nuclear danger as Ukraine and Russia report emergency app hacks
PBS NewsHour🕒 Nov 2, 10 AM ET Ukraine and Russia both report fake emergency alerts after cyberattacks target apps as limited ceasefire ends
The Independent🕒 Nov 2, 7 AM ET Ukraine war live: Ukrainians receive fake nuclear emergency alert after app ‘hacked by enemy’
The Washington Post🕒 Nov 2, 5 AM ET Ukraine and Russia both report cyberattacks on emergency apps
Yahoo News🕒 Nov 2, 6 AM ET Fake nuclear alerts hit Ukrainians and Russians on the same day
BBC🕒 Nov 2, 3 AM ET Russia and Ukraine say emergency alert apps were hit by apparent cyber-attacks
Newsweek🕒 Nov 2, 6 AM ET Ukraine and Russia Hit By Hoax Nuclear Threat Alerts After Cyberattacks
Reuters🕒 Nov 2, 9 AM ET Ukraine and Russia say emergency alert apps were hit by hacks
Just the News🕒 Nov 2, 10 AM ET Apparent cyberattacks spark false threat alerts, Ukraine and Russia say
The Sun🕒 Nov 2, 5 AM ET NUCLEAR ALERT Millions in Ukraine & Russia warned 'NUCLEAR warheads have launched’ after emergency apps hacked in ‘huge cyber attack'
Breitbart🕒 Nov 2, 10 AM ET Kyiv, Moscow Citizens Receive ‘Imminent Nuclear Strike’ Alerts
Fox News🕒 Nov 1, 10 PM ET Ukraine says air alert system hacked after false radiation warning in Kyiv
New York Post🕒 Nov 2, 7 AM ET Hackers breach emergency alert apps in Ukraine and Russia with fake warnings of nuclear attacks
Newsmax🕒 Nov 2, 6 AM ET Ukraine and Russia Report Fake Emergency Alerts after Cyberattack Targets Apps

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

leans left
center
right

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

🫏 NPR News Now 1× · best #5

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

⚖️ BBC Global News Podcast 1

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

UkraineUkrainian Air ForceKyivUkraine Alert SystemUkrainian officials

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Ukraine air raid app hacked

Ukraine air raid app hacked, sending false alerts
Nov 2, 6 AM ET
Ukraine and Russia report cyberattacks on emergency apps (this story)
Nov 1, 10 PM ET

Ukraine and Russia report cyberattacks on emergency apps

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🧵 Ukraine air raid app hacked