{"id":152728,"date":"2020-07-18T01:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/18\/130-high-profile-twitter-accounts-targeted-in-hacking-attack\/"},"modified":"2020-07-18T01:36:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T23:36:59","slug":"130-high-profile-twitter-accounts-targeted-in-hacking-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=152728","title":{"rendered":"130 high-profile Twitter accounts targeted in hacking attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social network investigating whether users\u2019 private data was compromisedMore than a hundred high-profile Twitter accounts have been hacked, the social network confirmed, as fresh evidence emerged linking the attack to a small group of petty hackers.One hundred and 30 accounts were affected in the unprecedented attack, Twitter said in a statement on Friday morning, adding: \u201cFor a small subset of these accounts, the attackers were able to gain control of the accounts and then send Tweets from those accounts.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/jul\/17\/130-high-profile-twitter-accounts-targeted-in-hacking-attack\" target=\"_blank\">130 high-profile Twitter accounts targeted in hacking attack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social network investigating whether users\u2019 private data was compromisedMore than a hundred high-profile Twitter accounts have been hacked, the social network confirmed, as fresh evidence emerged linking the attack to a small group of petty hackers.One hundred and 30 accounts were affected in the unprecedented attack, Twitter said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}