{"id":36011,"date":"2021-06-04T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36011"},"modified":"2021-06-04T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:53:41","slug":"reports-cox-media-group-websites-hacked-in-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36011","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Cox Media Group websites hacked in ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cox Media Group, which owns television and radio stations in 20 media markets around the U.S., was the victim of a ransomware attack Thursday, according to several reports.<\/p>\n<p>TV and radio streams for stations across the country were taken offline Thursday, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/phcdwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhhvchlh_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/phcdwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhhvchlh_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622945771714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGYacdGwOJLdw4KJ-vjFw7xjLaFYA\">trade publication Inside Radio<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uhfmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhhcphfq_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/uhfmvzybchhsjzjhsgnccsmmcyskhyhddfcbzpkhhcphfq_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622945771714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGAxSBXbMFObZNgon4Bm3IHnfCk9Q\">TV news gossip site FTVLive<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qmghyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmmdpmfs_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qmghyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmmdpmfs_vrvfhhpvpnfgvvmkfyhm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622945771714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEweIOG_vpZSfdlIIPjwxetg05i_A\">computer security site The Record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly, a number of the sites were back up and running as of Friday, but a check of several websites of the company radio stations Friday morning revealed streams that were not working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cox Media Group, which owns television&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36011","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=36011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36012,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36011\/revisions\/36012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}