{"id":6741,"date":"2021-06-11T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:56:46","slug":"ea-and-police-data-stolen-by-private-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/ea-and-police-data-stolen-by-private-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"EA and Police Data Stolen By Private Hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Private data from the game maker Electronic Arts (EA) and the Presque Isle Police Department in Maine were reportedly stolen by hackers who broke into their networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hackers used an individual who goes by the username Leakbook to sell 780GB of EA source code and tools for FIFA 21 on an underground crime forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the case of the Presque Isle Police Department, almost 200GB of its private data was put on the Internet by a ransomware group known as Avaddon, after the department had refused to pay the demanded ransom.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/06\/data-thieving-hackers-strike-again-stealing-ea-source-code-and-police-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from Electronic Arts and the Presque Isle Police Department in Maine were reportedly stolen by hackers who broke into their networks.<\/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-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","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=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}