{"id":5345,"date":"2021-05-13T10:57:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2021-08-03T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T13:57:38","slug":"u-s-pipeline-hackers-claim-breach-of-3-new-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/u-s-pipeline-hackers-claim-breach-of-3-new-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Pipeline Hackers Claim Breach of 3 New Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DarkSide, the hacking group blamed for crippling the Colonial Pipeline and its operations in the southeastern United States, claimed responsibility for the break-in at three other companies on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three companies were a Brazilian battery firm, a Chicago-based technology company, and a British engineering firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colonial Pipeline expressed no interest in paying the ransom demanded by the hackers, who had encrypted their data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is now working closely with law enforcement and FireEye, a U.S. cybersecurity group, to repair the damage and restore operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hack crippled operations of the Colonial Pipeline, causing panic buying and gasoline shortages in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/colonial-pipeline-hacking-group-claims-responsibility-breaching-3-more-companies-2021-05-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DarkSide, the hacking group blamed for crippling the Colonial Pipeline and its operations in the southeastern United States, claimed responsibility for the break-in at three other companies on Wednesday. The three companies were a Brazilian battery firm, a Chicago-based technology company, and a British engineering firm. Colonial Pipeline expressed no interest in paying the ransom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}