{"id":111337,"date":"2020-08-14T11:25:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/exclusive-china-backed-hackers-targeted-covid-19-vaccine-firm-moderna"},"modified":"2020-08-14T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:25:05","slug":"exclusive-china-backed-hackers-targeted-covid-19-vaccine-firm-moderna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/exclusive-china-backed-hackers-targeted-covid-19-vaccine-firm-moderna","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: China-backed hackers \u2018targeted COVID-19 vaccine firm Moderna\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exclusive-china-backed-hackers-targeted-covid-19-vaccine-firm-moderna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2014 Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc, a U.S.-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, this year in a bid to steal data, according to a U.S. security official tracking Chinese hacking.<\/p>\n<p>China on Friday rejected the accusation that hackers linked to it had targeted Moderna.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the U.S. Justice Department made public an indictment of two Chinese nationals accused of spying on the United States, including three unnamed U.S.-based targets involved in medical research to fight the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) \u2014 Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc, a U.S.-based coronavirus vaccine research developer, this year in a bid to steal data, according to a U.S. security official tracking Chinese hacking. China on Friday rejected the accusation that hackers linked to it had targeted Moderna. Last week, the U.S. Justice Department made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111337","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}