{"id":29595,"date":"2016-09-14T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=29595"},"modified":"2016-09-14T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:20:48","slug":"science-news-service-hacked-taken-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=29595","title":{"rendered":"Science News Service Hacked, Taken Offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29342\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hacker_bykst_Pixabay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29342\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hacker_bykst_Pixabay.jpg\" alt=\"Hacker\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hacker_bykst_Pixabay.jpg 600w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hacker_bykst_Pixabay-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hacker_bykst_Pixabay-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Hacker_bykst_Pixabay-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(bykst, Pixabay)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>14 September 2016. EurekAlert, an online scientific news distribution service, was taken down last night after discovering a security breach that occurred on Friday, 9 September. An investigation by American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, that publishes EurekAlert, shows &#8220;registrants&#8217; user names and passwords were compromised.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/offline.html\">letter<\/a> posted by Ginger Pinholster, Chief Communications Officer at AAAS, says the organization learned of the breach on Sunday, 11 September. Her letter notes &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An investigation revealed that our web site had experienced an aggressive attack on September 9 that compromised usernames and passwords. As we were working to implement a secure password-reset protocol for all registrants, the unknown hacker publicly released an embargoed EurekAlert! news release. We then decided to bring the site down immediately, to protect other embargoed content.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pinholster adds that financial information from subscribing institutions is not kept on the EurekAlert site, and was not affected by the breach.<\/p>\n<p>The letter said AAAS &#8220;will bring the site back online as soon as we can ensure that vulnerabilities have been eliminated,&#8221; but gave no indication of how long that would take.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 September 2016. EurekAlert, an online scientific news distribution service, was taken down last night after discovering a security breach that occurred on Friday, 9 September. An investigation by American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, that publishes EurekAlert, shows &#8220;registrants&#8217; user names and passwords were compromised.&#8221; A letter posted by Ginger Pinholster, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[86,78],"class_list":["post-29595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-engineering","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29597,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29595\/revisions\/29597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}