{"id":149669,"date":"2015-12-14T10:20:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T08:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=149669"},"modified":"2015-12-14T10:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T08:21:23","slug":"twitter-warns-users-about-account-hacking-by-state-sponsored-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/149669-twitter-warns-users-about-account-hacking-by-state-sponsored-actors.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter warns users about account hacking by state-sponsored actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has followed Google and Facebook by warning users when their accounts have been targeted by state-sponsored actors.<\/p>\n<p>Some Twitter users started to receive the message \u201cAs a precaution, we are alerting you that your Twitter account is one of a small group of accounts that may have been targeted by state-sponsored actors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that these actors (possibly associated with a government) may have been trying to obtain information such as email addresses, IP addresses, and\/or phone numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter also shared tips on how to protect your privacy, including using Tor and the EFF\u2019s resource \u201cProtect Yourself on Social Networks\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Twitter<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/149233-twitter-supports-new-emojis.html\">Twitter supports new emojis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/148959-top-twitter-trends-in-south-africa-in-2015.html\">Top Twitter trends in South Africa in 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter now warns its users when their accounts have been targeted by state-sponsored actors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,161,167,405],"class_list":["post-149669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149669"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149681,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149669\/revisions\/149681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}