Unsolved
The Max Headroom Broadcast Intrusion
Chicago, Illinois, United StatesNovember 22, 1987
On the night of November 22, 1987, an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask hijacked two television broadcasts in Chicago — first WGN-TV and then WTTW — transmitting bizarre, garbled video. The FCC investigated but no one was ever identified or charged. It remains one of the most famous unsolved acts of broadcast piracy.