{"id":4015,"date":"2020-12-15T12:48:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2020-12-15T12:48:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T12:48:19","slug":"sprawling-hack-of-federal-agencies-spurs-alarm-in-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4015","title":{"rendered":"Sprawling hack of federal agencies spurs alarm in White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Hackers from a foreign nation-state have breached multiple federal agencies, including the Treasury Department and the Commerce Department\u2019s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, in a months-long campaign that has stirred concerns of the highest levels of the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the full scope and significance of the breaches remain unclear, their discovery prompted an emergency meeting Saturday of the White House\u2019s National Security Council, according to a U.S. official who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing incident. A second U.S. official said the attack is believed to be the work of the Russian government, a link also made in multiple news reports Sunday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/13\/federal-agencies-hacked-444970\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/13\/federal-agencies-hacked-444970<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hackers from a foreign nation-state have breached multiple federal agencies, including the Treasury Department and the Commerce Department\u2019s National Telecommunications and Information Administration, in a months-long campaign that has stirred concerns of the highest levels of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>While the full scope and significance of the breaches remain unclear, their discovery prompted an emergency meeting Saturday of the White House\u2019s National Security Council, according to a U.S. official who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing incident. A second U.S. official said the attack is believed to be the work of the Russian government, a link also made in multiple news reports Sunday night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[456,315,619],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-hacking","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}