{"id":4120,"date":"2026-09-10T23:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2026-09-11T00:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:42:03","slug":"u-s-banning-hack-for-hire-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/u-s-banning-hack-for-hire-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. banning hack for hire firms?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28606486-wyden-harrigan-whitehouse-letter-re-hackers-for-hire\/\">A bipartisan group of Congress<\/a> is calling on the U.S. to ban several hack for hire firms. They \u201caccuse the firms of targeting Americans and abusing foreign courts to silence U.S. reporting on their activities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/09\/09\/group-of-bipartisan-lawmakers-ask-us-government-to-ban-several-hack-for-hire-firms\/\">Tech Crunch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan group of Congress is calling on the U.S. to ban several hack for hire firms. They \u201caccuse the firms of targeting Americans and abusing foreign courts to silence U.S. reporting on their activities.\u201d Tech Crunch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}