{"id":963,"date":"2018-05-16T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/05\/16\/local-trend-primary-election-hacked-in-the-iris-state\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:08:00","slug":"local-trend-primary-election-hacked-in-the-iris-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/local-trend-primary-election-hacked-in-the-iris-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Local TREND. Primary Election Hacked in the Iris State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local May 2018 election that was hacked:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Knox County, Tennessee\u00a0primary for mayor &amp; \u00a0local races<\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of hack was used?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0A DDoS attack routed through 65 countries<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation of the hack?<\/strong>\u00a0A lot of computers from all over the world tried to access the web server for the election from 7pm to 10pm causing the election site to crash<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-cybersecurity\/2018\/05\/14\/election-security-news-across-the-us-218152\">Politico |\u00a0<strong>\u00a0WHAT HAPPENED IN TENNESSEE:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Local May 2018 election that was hacked:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Knox County, Tennessee\u00a0primary for mayor &amp; \u00a0local races<\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of hack was used?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0A DDoS attack routed through 65 countries<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translation of the hack?<\/strong>\u00a0A lot of computers from all over the world tried to access the web server for the election from 7pm to 10pm causing the election site to crash<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-cybersecurity\/2018\/05\/14\/election-security-news-across-the-us-218152\">Politico |\u00a0<strong>\u00a0WHAT HAPPENED IN TENNESSEE:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-data-breach","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}