{"id":997180,"date":"2026-03-10T07:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997180"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:45:48","slug":"russia-backed-hackers-breach-signal-whatsapp-accounts-of-officials-journalists-netherlands-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/10\/russia-backed-hackers-breach-signal-whatsapp-accounts-of-officials-journalists-netherlands-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian-backed hackers have launched a global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts used by officials, military personnel and journalists, two intelligence agencies in the Netherlands warned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Users are persuaded in chats initiated by the hackers to divulge security verification and pin codes, giving \u200cthem access \u2060to personal \u2060accounts and group chats, they said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Russian hackers have likely gained \u200baccess to sensitive information,&#8221; the General Dutch Intelligence Agency (AIVD) and Dutch Military Intelligence and \u200bSecurity Service (MIVD) said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian-backed hackers have launched a global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts used by officials, military personnel and journalists, two intelligence agencies in the Netherlands warned on Monday. Users are persuaded in chats initiated by the hackers to divulge security verification and pin codes, giving \u200cthem access \u2060to personal \u2060accounts and group chats, they said in a statement. &#8220;The Russian hackers have likely gained \u200baccess to sensitive information,&#8221; the General Dutch Intelligence Agency (AIVD) and Dutch Military Intelligence and \u200bSecurity Service (MIVD) said.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997180","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=997180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}