{"id":975,"date":"2013-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/01\/hacker-raids-abc\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:38:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:38:31","slug":"hacker-raids-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/01\/hacker-raids-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker raids ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attacker has hacked into the ABC and dumped almost 45,000 user email addresses and hashed passwords following a broadcast of an interview with radical Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The ABC confirmed the attack, which targeted the 2010 program &#8220;Making Australia Happy&#8221; and exposed users who registered with the program&#8217;s website. Spokeswoman Sally Cray said the ABC would contact the 45,000 affected users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As soon as the ABC was made aware of this activity the site was shut down,&#8221; Cray said. &#8220;This breach originated at an overseas location and an activist has claimed responsibility for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Random checks against user identities listed within the 10 page online database dump returned legitimate matches.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker claiming responsibility said the attack was in response to an interview broadcast on the ABC&#8217;s Lateline program with the right-wing Wilders. <\/p>\n<p>Link: http:\/\/www.crn.com.au\/News\/334708,hacker-raids-abc.aspx?utm_source=pcta&#038;utm_medium=web&#038;utm_campaign=networkbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}