{"id":119570,"date":"2015-02-25T08:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T06:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=119570"},"modified":"2015-02-25T08:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T06:04:48","slug":"r34-million-reward-for-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/119570-r34-million-reward-for-hacker.html","title":{"rendered":"R34 million reward for hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government has announced a $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a man American authorities call one of the world&#8217;s most prolific cyber hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Evgeniy Bogachev, who is believed to be in Russia, was indicted in Pittsburgh last year on charges including bank fraud and conspiracy. His pictures have been plastered on &#8220;Wanted&#8221; signs distributed by the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Bogachev is accused of acting as ringleader for a massive hacking operation that installed malicious software on victims&#8217; computers to capture bank account numbers, passwords and other sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the reward, arresting overseas hackers is difficult for U.S. authorities, particularly in countries like Russia where there is no extradition treaty.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department and State Department announced the reward Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More security news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/119558-signal-jamming-probe-tabled.html\">Signal jamming probe tabled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/119556-cia-asked-south-africa-to-help-it-spy.html\">CIA asked South Africa to help it spy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/119456-south-africa-spied-on-iran-report.html\">South Africa spied on Iran: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government has announced a $3 million reward for information leading to the arrest of a man American authorities call one of the world&#8217;s most prolific cyber hackers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":73822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,1565],"class_list":["post-119570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-hacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}