{"id":4795,"date":"2011-07-08T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/washington-post-job-website-hacked\/"},"modified":"2011-07-08T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:34:00","slug":"washington-post-job-website-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/washington-post-job-website-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Job Website Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/jobs\/product-pages\/fraud-email.html\">Washington<br \/>\nPost<\/a> has reported an unauthorized third party attacked their Jobs website,<br \/>\nand the result is an astounding 1.27 million user IDs and e-mail addresses were<br \/>\nimpacted. No passwords or other personal information was impacted.\n<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened once on June 27 and once on June 28. The<br \/>\nWashington Post is taking the attack very seriously, shutting the attack down<br \/>\nas soon as it was noticed, as well as implementing additional measures to<br \/>\nprevent against similar attacks in the future. Law enforcement has been<br \/>\ncontacted.<\/p>\n<p>The users whose e-mail addresses were impacted risk receiving<br \/>\nan increased amount of SPAM in their inbox. If you are among the millions of<br \/>\npeople who have applied for a position at the Washington Post, your personal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/home\">fraud prevention<\/a> measures<br \/>\nneed to be on high alert. You pose a greater risk for phishing, which will ask<br \/>\nfor personal information. Many times, phishing e-mails appear to come from a<br \/>\nreputable organization seeking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/identity-verification\">identity verification<\/a><br \/>\ninformation, and ask for bank account information, credit card information,<br \/>\npasswords and ID numbers.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has reported an unauthorized third party attacked their Jobs website,<br \/>\nand the result is an astounding 1.27 million user IDs and e-mail addresses were<br \/>\nimpacted. No passwords or other personal information was impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}