A Russian hacker group has attacked the news site CNET. It later said it stole usernames, encrypted passwords and emails for more than one million users.<\/p>\n
CNET said a representative\u00a0from the group – which calls itself ‘w0rm’ – informed it about the hack via a Twitter conversation.<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for CBS Interactive – the owner of CNET – said the firm had “identified the issue and resolved it”.<\/p>\n
According to CNET, w0rm offered to sell the database for 1 Bitcoin, or $622.<\/p>\n
But it added that the hacking group said the plan to sell the database was to gain attention and “nothing more”.<\/p>\n
Improve security?<\/strong><\/p>\n The representative of the group claimed that it hacked CNET servers to improve the overall security on the internet.<\/p>\n The group has claimed to have successfully hacked the BBC last year, as well as websites of Adobe and Bank of America.<\/p>\n It says that by targeting high-profile websites it can raise awareness of security issues.<\/p>\n “[W]e are driven to make the Internet a better and safer [place] rather than a desire to protect copyright,” the representative said in a Twitter exchange with CNET.<\/p>\n On Monday, the representative offered a security solution to CNET\u00a0by tweeting: “#CNET I have good protection system for u, ping me”.<\/p>\n According to CNET, 27.1 million unique users visited its desktop and mobile sites in the US in June this year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Russian hacker group has attacked the news site CNET. It later said it stole usernames, encrypted passwords and emails for more than one million users. CNET said a representative\u00a0from the group – which calls itself ‘w0rm’ – informed it about the hack via a Twitter conversation. A spokeswoman for CBS Interactive – the owner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":31980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1688,18,440],"class_list":["post-31974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-david-asante-apeatu","tag-dr-akwasi-osei","tag-road-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}