{"id":9032,"date":"2021-07-23T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2021-07-26T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:32:52","slug":"gun-owners-scared-after-firearm-website-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/gun-owners-scared-after-firearm-website-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Owners\u2019 Scared After Firearm Website Data Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some gun owners in the U.K. expressed concern after around 100,000 names and addresses of customers of a leading website known for buying and selling shotguns and rifles were published on the dark web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The website Guntrader.uk said it learned of the breach on Monday and informed the Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said that although around 100,000 customer records were stolen, &#8220;no information relating to gun ownership or the location of firearms was taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and the National Crime Agency are investigating the breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gun ownership is heavily controlled in the U.K. making it more difficult to purchase and valuable on the black market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is asking members to be observant around home security following the breach.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57932823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> on the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun owners in the U.K. are concerned after names and addresses of customers of a leading website known for buying and selling shotguns and rifles were published on the dark web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","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=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions\/9070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}