Reports that radio giant Entercom was hacked for $500,000 ransom

Entercom Communications Corp., the owner of KYW, WIP, WOGL, B101, and other Philadelphia stations, was hacked over the weekend, freezing its emails and causing computer systems to crash, according to published reports and sources.
 
The hackers, in what some call ransomware, have asked for $500,000, according to the reports.