{"id":16207,"date":"2019-04-16T20:12:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T03:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16207"},"modified":"2019-04-16T20:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T03:12:18","slug":"ecuador-says-it-faced-40m-cyberattacks-after-assange-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16207","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador says it faced 40M cyberattacks after Assange arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador said this week that it has been hit by more than 40 million cyberattacks since last week&#8217;s arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside the country&#8217;s embassy in London.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador&#8217;s deputy minister for information and communication technologies told Agence France Presse (AFP) that the attacks primarily came from the U.S., several European countries, Brazil and Ecuador itself.<\/p>\n<p>Assange, who had been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for years in self-imposed exile, was arrested last week after Ecuadorian officials allowed British police to enter the facility and arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently in the process of extradition and had previously been charged under seal.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department revealed on Thursday that Assange faces one count of conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to &#8220;knowingly access a computer, without authorization and exceeding authorized access,&#8221; to obtain classified information that &#8220;could be used to the injury of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The indictment alleges that Assange helped Manning crack a password stored on a Defense Department computer. The computer was connected to a U.S. government system and used to store confidential information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador said this week that it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16208,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16207\/revisions\/16208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}