{"id":160932,"date":"2016-04-07T08:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T06:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=160932"},"modified":"2016-04-07T08:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T06:14:35","slug":"panama-papers-leak-was-a-hack-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/160932-panama-papers-leak-was-a-hack-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Panama Papers leak was a hack: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-35975503\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The BBC has reported<\/strong><\/a> that the Panama Papers leak, which involves law firm Mossack Fonseca, was caused by a hack, rather than an inside job.<\/p>\n<p>Ramon Fonseca, a partner at the Panamanian law firm, told the BBC the company\u2019s international servers were hacked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Panama_Papers\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Panama Papers are a leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents<\/strong><\/a> that provide information about more than 214,000 offshore companies listed by Mossack Fonseca.<\/p>\n<p>The documents show how wealthy individuals, including public officials, hide their money from public scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The papers identify current government leaders from five countries &#8211; Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates &#8211; as well as government officials, and relatives and close associates of various heads of government.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the heads of government linked with the Panama Papers include those from South Africa, Brazil, China, Peru, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/the-panama-papers-and-the-zuma-link-20160404\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mining magnate Khulubuse Zuma has been named<\/strong><\/a> in the Panama Papers leak, which placed\u00a0the spotlight on his uncle, President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on security<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/160684-whatsapp-rolls-out-end-to-end-encryption-for-messages-calling.html\" target=\"_blank\">WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption for messages, calling<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/159263-blackberry-fought-back-against-facebook-and-whatsapp-and-lost.html\"><strong>BlackBerry fought back against Facebook and WhatsApp, and lost<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/158943-all-we-want-is-to-keep-whatsapp-free.html\"><strong>All we want is to keep WhatsApp free<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Panama Papers leak, which involved the law firm Mossack Fonseca, was caused by a hack, rather than an inside job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":160934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,36442,36444,36440],"class_list":["post-160932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-khulubuse-zuma","tag-mossack-fonseca","tag-panama-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160932"}],"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=160932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160938,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160932\/revisions\/160938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}