{"id":949040,"date":"2025-07-23T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T03:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949040"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:17:19","slug":"weak-password-allows-hackers-to-shut-down-uks-158-year-old-transport-company-leaving-700-jobless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/23\/weak-password-allows-hackers-to-shut-down-uks-158-year-old-transport-company-leaving-700-jobless\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak password allows hackers to shut down UK\u2019s 158-year-old transport company leaving 700 jobless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 158-year-old UK transport company, KNP Logistics, has collapsed following a ransomware attack, resulting in the loss of 700 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The Akira hacker group allegedly gained access by guessing an employee\u2019s password, then encrypted the company\u2019s data and demanded a ransom, estimated at \u00a35 million, BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to KNP director Paul Abbott, hackers gained access to the network by exploiting a weak employee password, allowing them to encrypt company data and lock critical systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 158-year-old UK transport company, KNP Logistics, has collapsed following a ransomware attack, resulting in the loss of 700 jobs. The Akira hacker group allegedly gained access by guessing an employee\u2019s password, then encrypted the company\u2019s data and demanded a ransom, estimated at \u00a35 million, BBC reported. According to KNP director Paul Abbott, hackers gained access to the network by exploiting a weak employee password, allowing them to encrypt company data and lock critical systems.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949040","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=949040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}