Nuclear strike warning? Hackers send fake alert to Ukraine emergency app.
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Unknown hackers targeted Ukraine's nationwide emergency alert mobile app on Sunday night. They sent Kyiv residents a false warning of an imminent nuclear strike.
The app said there was a high possibility of nuclear radiation. It also wrongly warned of a chemical threat to the Ukrainian capital and of street-to-street fighting.
The messages appeared in English with spelling mistakes, as well as in Ukrainian.