{"id":12300,"date":"2024-12-07T04:37:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T04:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/07\/pitrodas-phone-laptop-hacked-tens-of-thousands-in-cryptocurrency-demanded\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T04:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T04:37:26","slug":"pitrodas-phone-laptop-hacked-tens-of-thousands-in-cryptocurrency-demanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/07\/pitrodas-phone-laptop-hacked-tens-of-thousands-in-cryptocurrency-demanded\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitroda&#8217;s phone, laptop hacked; tens of thousands in cryptocurrency demanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pitroda, Chairperson of the Indian Overseas Congress, reported repeated hacking of his laptop, smartphone, and server.  Hackers demanded tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, threatening a smear campaign if unpaid. He cautioned his network against opening suspicious emails or messages, and plans to upgrade his security upon returning to Chicago.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Pitroda, Chairperson of the Indian Overseas Congress, reported repeated hacking of his laptop, smartphone, and server. Hackers demanded tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, threatening a smear campaign if unpaid. He cautioned his network against opening suspicious emails or messages, and plans to upgrade his security upon returning to Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}