I’m not sure it was hacking, I get the feeling that these events may be intentional to kind of kick the tires on emergency systems and human reactions, perhaps because the powers that be are expecting stuff to go down in the near future. I mean we had Hawaii, then Japan, and in my neck of the woods our nuclear power plant issued a false alarm as well. It just seems really odd, all these things happening in close proximity.
This would make a bit of sense. I think someone on here mentioned how the whole incident really highlighted that the general public has no fucking idea what to do if they receive a message like this.
While it's worryingly similar to crying wolf, I would hope that this does lead to more of the general public (even outside of Hawaii) actually thinking about how they'd handle and react to an imminent threat.
