{"id":103873,"date":"2020-03-17T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/cyberattack-hits-u-s-health-agency-during-coronavirus-outbreak"},"modified":"2020-03-17T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T17:45:14","slug":"cyberattack-hits-u-s-health-agency-during-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/cyberattack-hits-u-s-health-agency-during-coronavirus-outbreak","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack hits U.S. health agency during coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyberattack-hits-u-s-health-agency-during-coronavirus-outbreak.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyberattack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation\u2019s response to the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/liveblog\/coronavirus-live-updates\" target=\"_blank\" >coronavirus pandemic<\/a>, according to three people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The attack appears to have been intended to slow the agency\u2019s systems down, but didn\u2019t do so in any meaningful way, said the people, who asked for anonymity to discuss an incident that was not public.<\/p>\n<p>The National Security Council tweeted just before midnight: \u201cText message rumors of a national #quarantine are FAKE. There is no national lockdown. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDCgov\">@CDCgov<\/a> has and will continue to post the latest guidance on #COVID19.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyberattack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation\u2019s response to the coronavirus pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter. The attack appears to have been intended to slow the agency\u2019s systems down, but didn\u2019t do so in any meaningful way, said the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}