Cox Stations Still Dealing with Being Hacked

FTVLive was the FIRST to tell you that the Cox/Apollo TV stations have been somewhat crippled by a ransomware attack on their systems.

Many Cox stations had to cancel newscasts and webpages went hours and sometimes days without being updated.

At Cox owned WHIO in Dayton, things have gotten slightly better.

The station did put on a newscast at noon on Friday, but appeared to scrap the newscast on Saturday.

At WHIO, sources tell FTVLive that the weather computers were not on the system that was hacked, so the station has been able to use weather graphics. On Friday, WHIO had tow full weather segments in a single newscast. Despite the fact that it was sunny and hot outside.

Also, the teleprompters are down and that left anchors diving for copy the entire newscast.

Sources tell FTVLive that the hackers are demanding millions of dollars to give the Cox stations back control on their systems.

As far as we can see, none of the Cox stations have publicly addressed the news of them being hacked and employees are being ordered not to talk or post anything about it.

The closet WHIO got to addressing the issue was saying, “We are having some ‘technical glitches’ today and things may look a bitter different but thank you for joining us” at the very beginning on their newscast.