{"id":427022,"date":"2021-07-23T08:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T02:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=427022"},"modified":"2021-07-23T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T04:02:51","slug":"aramco-faces-50-mn-extortion-bid-over-data-leak-but-denies-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/aramco-faces-50-mn-extortion-bid-over-data-leak-but-denies-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Aramco faces $50-mn extortion bid over data leak, but denies breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Aramco confirmed that some company files were leaked after hackers reportedly demanded a $50 million ransom from the world\u2019s most-valuable oil producer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAramco recently became aware of the indirect release of a limited amount of company data which was held by third-party contractors,\u201d the Middle Eastern oil major said Wednesday in an email. \u201cWe confirm that the release of data was not due to a breach of our systems, has no impact on our operations, and the company continues to maintain a robust cybersecurity posture.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reported earlier that 1 terabyte of Saudi Arab\u00adian Oil Co data had been held by an extortionist, citing a web page it had accessed on the darknet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Aramco confirmed that some company files were leaked after hackers reportedly demanded a $50 million ransom from the world\u2019s most-valuable oil producer. \u201cAramco recently became aware of the indirect release of a limited amount of company data which was held by third-party contractors,\u201d the Middle Eastern oil major said Wednesday in an email. \u201cWe confirm that the release of data was not due to a breach of our systems, has no impact on our operations, and the company continues to maintain a robust cybersecurity posture.\u201d The Associated Press reported earlier that 1 terabyte of Saudi Arab\u00adian Oil Co data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}