{"id":15271,"date":"2010-09-20T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-20T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T07:13:00","slug":"hundreds-of-sa-websites-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/15271-hundreds-of-sa-websites-hacked.html","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of SA websites hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend was a particularly unpleasant time for many local webmasters after hundreds of websites were defaced by international hackers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the website Hackingstats, an initiative keeping track of hacked South African websites, a total number of 2340 South African websites have been hacked since 12 July 2010.&nbsp; This figure includes 28 South African Government websites.<\/p>\n<p>September has been a particularly active month for hackers attacking local websites.&nbsp; Hackingstats estimates that 1123 South African websites have been hacked over the last three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these security breaches took place over the last three days.&nbsp; The website reports that 307 websites were hacked on Friday, 596 on Saturday and over 100 websites on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The lookup of a few of the compromised websites show that they are hosted by service providers &ndash; both local and international.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/268959-Numerous-South-African-websites-hacked\"><strong>Local websites hacked<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous South African websites were hacked this weekend by international hackers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}