{"id":781,"date":"2021-03-08T23:48:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/microsoft-hack-biden-launches-emergency-taskforce-to-address-cyber-attack\/"},"modified":"2021-03-08T23:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T22:48:59","slug":"microsoft-hack-biden-launches-emergency-taskforce-to-address-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/microsoft-hack-biden-launches-emergency-taskforce-to-address-cyber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft hack: Biden launches emergency taskforce to address cyber-attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018unusually aggressive\u2019 attack allowed hackers to access email accounts of at least 30,000 organizations in the US<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is launching an emergency taskforce to address an aggressive cyber-attack that has affected hundreds of thousands of Microsoft customers around the world \u2013 the second major hacking campaign to hit the US since the election.<\/p>\n<p>The attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2021\/03\/at-least-30000-u-s-organizations-newly-hacked-via-holes-in-microsofts-email-software\/\">first reported<\/a> by security researcher Brian Krebs on 5 March, allowed hackers to access the email accounts of at least 30,000 organizations in the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/mar\/08\/microsoft-cyber-attack-biden-emergency-task-force\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/455a55e17ecbfd48cf8e12f9ffde219751825f25\/0_118_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fd62389e3a846bc3025a01f1039a4919\" title=\"Microsoft hack: Biden launches emergency taskforce to address cyber-attack\" \/>The \u2018unusually aggressive\u2019 attack allowed hackers to access email accounts of at least 30,000 organizations in the US<br \/>\nThe Biden administration is launching an emergency taskforce to address an aggressive cyber-attack that has affected hundreds of thousands of Microsoft customers around the world \u2013 the second major hacking campaign to hit the US since the election.<br \/>\nThe attack, first reported by security researcher Brian Krebs on 5 March, allowed hackers to access the email accounts of at least 30,000 organizations in the US. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018unusually aggressive\u2019 attack allowed hackers to access email accounts of at least 30,000 organizations in the US The Biden administration is launching an emergency taskforce to address an aggressive cyber-attack that has affected hundreds of thousands of Microsoft customers around the world \u2013 the second major hacking campaign to hit the US since the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/microsoft-hack-biden-launches-emergency-taskforce-to-address-cyber-attack\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft hack: Biden launches emergency taskforce to address cyber-attack<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}