{"id":31974,"date":"2014-07-15T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=31974"},"modified":"2014-07-15T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T11:57:50","slug":"cnet-attacked-by-russian-hacker-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/cnet-attacked-by-russian-hacker-group\/","title":{"rendered":"CNET attacked by Russian hacker group"},"content":{"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.<\/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":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1688,18,440],"yoast_head":"\n