{"id":249511,"date":"2018-02-21T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T08:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=249511"},"modified":"2018-02-21T10:54:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T08:54:27","slug":"tesla-cloud-infrastructure-hit-by-crypto-mining-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/249511-tesla-cloud-infrastructure-hit-by-crypto-mining-hackers.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesla cloud infrastructure hit by crypto-mining hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers recently compromised part of Tesla&#8217;s cloud infrastructure and used it to mine cryptocurrency, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/20\/poor-cloud-security-let-hackers-mine-cryptocurrency-on-teslas-dime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after cloud security company RedLock discovered several Kubernetes admin consoles were not password protected.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, hackers discovered Tesla&#8217;s unsecured AWS pod and used it to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>They logged in and\u00a0disguised the cloud computing usage and associated traffic, and it is unclear how long they were able to do so undetected.<\/p>\n<p>It is also not clear which coin was mined and how much of it the hackers managed to accrue.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/249243-follow-elon-musks-tesla-roadster-in-space.html\">Follow Elon Musk&#8217;s Tesla Roadster in space<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers compromised part of Tesla&#8217;s cloud infrastructure and used it to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":245878,"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":[44696],"tags":[48816,20719],"class_list":["post-249511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249511"}],"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=249511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249537,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249511\/revisions\/249537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}