{"id":885627,"date":"2024-12-09T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T03:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=885627"},"modified":"2024-12-09T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T03:40:53","slug":"phone-laptop-severely-compromised-hackers-want-cryptocurrency-sam-pitrodas-mail-to-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/09\/phone-laptop-severely-compromised-hackers-want-cryptocurrency-sam-pitrodas-mail-to-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone, laptop \u2018severely compromised\u2019, hackers want cryptocurrency: Sam Pitroda\u2019s mail to contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Sam Pitroda\u2019s smartphone, laptop and server have been repeatedly hacked over the past few weeks with hackers issuing threats and demanding tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to a mail sent to those on his mailing list. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have warned that, if unpaid, they will launch a smear and misinformation campaign to tarnish my reputation by contacting people in my network,\u201d Pitroda said in the email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Sam Pitroda\u2019s smartphone, laptop and server have been repeatedly hacked over the past few weeks with hackers issuing threats and demanding tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to a mail sent to those on his mailing list. \u201cThey have warned that, if unpaid, they will launch a smear and misinformation campaign to tarnish my reputation by contacting people in my network,\u201d Pitroda said in the email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}