{"id":885773,"date":"2024-12-09T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T03:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=885773"},"modified":"2024-12-09T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T04:10:37","slug":"phone-laptop-severely-compromised-hackers-want-cryptocurrency-sam-pitrodas-mail-to-contacts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/12\/09\/phone-laptop-severely-compromised-hackers-want-cryptocurrency-sam-pitrodas-mail-to-contacts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone, laptop &#8216;severely compromised&#8217;, hackers want cryptocurrency: Sam Pitroda&#8217;s mail to contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Sam Pitroda&#8217;s 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>&#8220;They have warned that, if unpaid, they will launch a smear and misinformation campaign to tarnish my reputation by contacting people in my network,&#8221; Pitroda said in the email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Sam Pitroda&#8217;s 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. &#8220;They have warned that, if unpaid, they will launch a smear and misinformation campaign to tarnish my reputation by contacting people in my network,&#8221; 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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885773","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=885773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}