{"id":39741,"date":"2021-09-09T18:19:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T01:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39741"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:19:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T01:19:06","slug":"united-nations-confirms-it-was-hacked-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39741","title":{"rendered":"United Nations confirms it was hacked this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.N. on Thursday confirmed that it was the victim of a cyberattack earlier this year and that attacks related to the original breach were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made in response to a report from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qvhhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwpdgpv_yfsskkqlqnsgqsllfqgq.html?a=&amp;b=42159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qvhhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwpdgpv_yfsskkqlqnsgqsllfqgq.html?a%3D%26b%3D42159&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631311489342000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFwB-aFJ9HxWsYzcsPDhPrs6Q9SKQ\">Bloomberg News<\/a>\u00a0Thursday that hackers breached the U.N. in early April and stole data through the use of login credentials from a U.N. employee that were bought from the dark web.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can confirm that unknown attackers were able to breach parts of the United Nations infrastructure in April of 2021,\u201d St\u00e9phane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. Secretary-General, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg cited findings from cybersecurity company Resecurity in reporting the breach. The firm found that the hackers were still active on U.N. networks as recently as early August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.N. on Thursday confirmed that&#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":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39741","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=39741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39742,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39741\/revisions\/39742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}