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Flashback: The 1986 hack that interrupted HBO

Name: Flashback: The 1986 hack that interrupted HBO
Uploaded: 2014-12-24T16:57:36-0500
Duration: 2 min 7 s
Description: We dug into the CBS News archives to find a story on one of the first hacks of its kind. A man who went be the name "Captain Midnight" interrupted a movie on HBO with a message that bewildered viewers and alarmed the cable industry.

We dug into the CBS News archives to find a story on one of the first hacks of its kind. A man who went be the name "Captain Midnight" interrupted a movie on HBO with a message that bewildered viewers and alarmed the cable industry.